Texas Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier spent Monday night inside the Texas House chamber after refusing to sign a waiver placing her under round-the-clock supervision by state troopers. The security order was imposed by Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows on Democrats who had returned from a two-week walkout over redistricting. While most of her colleagues accepted the escort, Collier remained in the Capitol, saying she would not "sign away my dignity." Democratic Reps. Gene Wu and Vince Perez joined her in solidarity. The standoff followed the Democrats’ decision earlier this month to leave the state and deny the chamber a quorum, delaying a Republican plan to redraw congressional district lines. Their return on Monday restored quorum, allowing Burrows to schedule the next floor session for Wednesday. To prevent a second walkout, Burrows required each returning Democrat to accept custody of a Texas Department of Public Safety officer whenever they left the floor or the Capitol grounds. Republicans hold large majorities in both legislative chambers and are expected to push through maps that could add five GOP-leaning seats to the U.S. House delegation, bolstering efforts backed by former President Donald Trump to preserve the party’s slim majority in Congress. Democrats say the proposal dilutes minority voting power and have vowed to challenge it in court, pointing to parallel moves by California and other Democratic-led states to redraw their own maps in response. Collier’s overnight protest underscores the escalating partisan tactics around mid-decade redistricting in the nation’s second-most-populous state. Unless she signs the waiver, House rules limit her movements to the chamber and her office until lawmakers reconvene Wednesday, when debate on the maps is expected to resume.