Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort on Monday and return to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

The lawmakers plan to spend the night on the House floor with state Rep. Nicole Collier, who has stayed in the House chamber for over 24 hours after declining to sign the “permission slip” to leave.

“Without permission to leave, they will join Representative Nicole Collier on the House floor overnight ahead of tomorrow’s vote on Trump and Abbott’s racist redistricting maps that threaten to divide Texas communities and strip representation from historically-united Texas neighborhoods,” the announcement read.

House Republicans announced the requirement on Monday when Democrats, w

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