Texas Rep held HOSTAGE on the House Floor! | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Angela Rye is joined by Texas State Representative Nicole Collier LIVE from the state house floor.
The Texas House Speaker has directed state troopers to follow Democratic representatives, the ones who fled the state to quash a vote on redistricting earlier this month, until they vote on new electoral maps later this week. For refusing this Republican surveillance, Rep Collier has been detained on the house floor, where she’s been told she must remain until the vote is held, or she accepts police escort. She could be locked in for two whole days.
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| 0:40.4 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Hello, and I was on mute the whole time I was talking. |
| 0:47.8 | That's all right, Angela. Hi. I was saying you all, we were going to be joined by State Representative Nicole Collier, who is joining us live |
| 0:55.4 | from the House floor in Texas, as you can see. She is being held hostage, essentially, by the Texas |
| 1:02.5 | Department of Public Safety. She represents District 95. Nicole, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:08.2 | Please tell us what is happening. Why are you the sole member remaining on the House floor? How did we get here? So, Angela, thank you so much for joining us. Please tell us what is happening. Why are you the sole member remaining on the House floor? How did we get here? |
| 1:14.1 | So, Angela, thank you for having me on. You know, when I woke up this morning, it was my intent to return to the Capitol with my colleagues in the House, the Democrats, because we were successful in getting California to agree to file maps that would |
| 1:31.4 | counter or neutralize the five seats that Trump asked Abbott, our governor, to pass. So we came |
| 1:39.4 | back to Texas to continue to fight. What that fight looked like, I didn't know at the time. |
| 1:47.5 | But when we got here, there was a call on the house, meaning that you can't leave the floor |
| 1:52.6 | unless you get a permission slip to leave, like you're in high school. And so what the speaker did was say, |
| 2:02.0 | he said that anybody who wants to leave the floor |
| 2:05.6 | had to get a permission slip |
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