The rhetoric has been charged. At one point Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said any lawmaker who solicited funds to pay a $500-per-day fine Texas House rules impose on absent legislators could violate bribery laws and called them "potential out-of-state felons." Newsom has called his effort the “Election Rigging Response Act.”

Collier is among the Texas House Democrats who broke quorum to block mid-decade congressional redistricting. She and at least 51 other lawmakers left the Capitol to block a map that opponents say would disenfranchise voters and position Republicans to gain five seats in Congress.

Texas State Representative Nicole Collier remained on the House floor Monday night after refusing to sign paperwork agreeing to be escorted by the Texas Departm