Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier spent the night in the Texas Capitol building rather than agree to a police monitor amid a contentious partisan struggle over redistricting that is part of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to keep the national House of Representatives in Republican hands.

Democrats had abandoned the state legislature for two weeks to deny a quorum in the Texas House, delaying a vote on a redistricting plan drawn up at Trump's behest.

After they returned to the statehouse on Monday, the Republican leadership assigned state law enforcement officers to monitor the Democrats to prevent further delays to their plan to redraw U.S. congressional voting districts to favour Republicans ahead of the 2026 election.

Collier, in her seventh two-year term represe

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