AUSTIN — A handful of fellow Democrats joined Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier late Tuesday as she waged a second day of a protest from behind the massive double doors of the Texas House.

“I'm fed up with (Republicans) taking and taking,” she said in an interview with Hearst Newspapers on Tuesday from the chamber floor.

A Texas House member from Fort Worth prepares to spend another night inside the Capitol in a political showdown over the rules established by the state legislature. Rep. Nicole Collier, who represents District 95 in East Fort Worth,

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...

Now that Democrats have returned to the Texas Capitol in Austin, the GOP-dominated legislature is expected to quickly advance new congressional maps aimed at creating five more Republican-leaning sea...