At least three Texas House Democrats spent the night inside the state Capitol in protest of a Republican-backed redistricting plan, which they say would diminish the voting power of minority communities throughout the state.

State Reps. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth and Gene Wu of Houston, who said they were joined by Rep. Vincent Perez of El Paso, slept on leather chairs in the House chamber Monday night after rejecting new attendance rules requiring Democrats who previously broke quorum to check in and be monitored by state police.

Collier began livestreaming from the chamber just after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning and was still broadcasting at 10:30 a.m.

“I’ve had enough of this bullying,” she told MSNBC . “I’m refusing to back down.”

The trio was among dozens of Democrats who left

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