On Tuesday, Texas Representative Nicole Collier chose to sleep on the floor of the State House rather than be subject to draconian 24-7 state trooper surveillance if she were to leave.
Now, on Wednesday, she shared that she was threatened with a felony unless she exited a bathroom while on a DNC call with Senator Cory Booker, Governor Gavin Newson, and other Democrats.
This comes as some Texas Democratic officials remain under the watch of law enforcement, a move GOP House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Texas Republicans levied after more than 50 state Democrats left Texas two weeks ago in response to the Republican Party’s blatantly political effort to reshape voting districts to gain more GOP House seats in the 2026 midterms elections.
While the redistricting vote is likely to occur now that they’re back in the state, Texas Democrats are still looking to exhaust any options they have in regards to delaying or obstructing the power grab of a vote.
They’ve even floated an amendment that would block the redistricting vote until the Epstein files are released, an issue that has fallen from the public eye after weeks of dominating the news cycle due to a well-orchestrated campaign of distraction by the Trump administration.
“What we just witnessed — them trying to shut her down and say it’s illegal for her to be in the bathroom and on this call. This is the lengths that they’re going to in Texas.” pic.twitter.com/vZyRSZCprK
— Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) August 20, 2025
“That is outrageous,” Cory Booker said live as Collier updated the call about her situation. “What they’re trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a Black woman. And that is outrageous. And I hope everybody took note of that. The fact that she can’t even let her voice be heard is frickin’ outrageous.”
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