Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety cnn.it/3V6K7ts
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It’s insane that a state rep can be held hostage and the media sanewashes it as a “protest”
aug 19, 2025, 7:39 pm • 2 0 • view
She’s a hostage. Her signature is her ransom which would her be followed around day and night- tracked like a felon on home arrest. How is this the land of the free? How is this legal?
aug 19, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Why doesn't she just leave and make them physically stop her?
aug 19, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
She's not there in protest, she's being imprisoned against her will, and I can't believe the police are allowing it!
aug 20, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
Republicans need to be arrested because the last time I checked holding somebody hostage is a crime
aug 19, 2025, 5:55 pm • 9 0 • view
Has she got a lawyer. I think this would be called false imprisonment and maybe kidnapping too.
aug 19, 2025, 8:06 pm • 2 0 • view
@cnn.com, you need to correct your headline. She's not there out of "protest" - she's being held hostage because she refuses to agree to a forced police escort. These are not the actions of a free & democratic state - these are the actions of an autocratic police state. Show some integrity.
aug 19, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 1 • view
Let’s support her. Republicans have lost their minds. They want to take away all of the American people’s freedoms who don’t agree with them or their criminal leader …
aug 19, 2025, 9:09 pm • 1 0 • view
This is not a protest. She's not allowed to leave unless she gives into Republican demands that are illegal & unconstitutional. She is currently being held against her will .I stopped watching CNN eons ago when you became that MSM organization that sanewashed & neglected to be a serious news outlet.
aug 19, 2025, 6:07 pm • 5 0 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't that against the law? No wait...never mind.😉
aug 19, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
She’s being held captive. Stop this crap.
aug 19, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Hands would be flying… this country has gone into the crapper…
aug 19, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm hoping someone's already filing papers and getting the courts involved and get her released asap. This is intolerable.
aug 19, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
„has now spent“ - „in protest“ She isn’t free to leave. You spelled „deprivation of liberty“ wrong.
aug 19, 2025, 5:52 pm • 20 1 • view
This should piss everybody off and shouldn’t be tolerated by Democratic leaders
aug 19, 2025, 6:05 pm • 6 0 • view
This is illegal incarceration, for political purposes. This is the kind of thing every fascist in Europe did, last century. This is the ugliness Republicans always bring. Stop conflating your religion with politics and do the right thing, America.
aug 19, 2025, 6:02 pm • 10 0 • view
She's being held against her will Isn't that a crime?
aug 19, 2025, 6:11 pm • 6 0 • view
It's called kidnapping CNN
aug 19, 2025, 5:52 pm • 8 0 • view
Escort? Really? What a way to sanitize what is in effect false imprisonment because she is refusing what is her right: the ability to walk around freely without goons following here.
aug 19, 2025, 6:45 pm • 4 0 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 6:20 pm • 8 2 • view
Hey CNN, imagine if a fucking Democratic legislature did this??? How would you cover that?
aug 19, 2025, 6:04 pm • 7 0 • view
The other democrats should be ashamed leaving her out to dry. Democrats can never hold the line. NEVER 😡🙈
aug 19, 2025, 5:53 pm • 10 0 • view
Two of them stayed with her. One of those left this morning. They all should've stayed. And their hygiene suffered from lack of access to showers and fresh clothes, then their Republican counterparts can just deal with it.
aug 19, 2025, 6:10 pm • 5 0 • view
“Escort”. They make it sound like she was offered a walk to her car and got mad. TEXAS IS PLACING DEM REPS UNDER HOUSE ARREST. She refused and has been kidnapped!!!!!
aug 19, 2025, 5:57 pm • 10 1 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone of those Democrats SHOULD STAND with her! Wtf about signing???!
aug 19, 2025, 6:33 pm • 2 0 • view
She's not being permitted to leave freely. There is a word for that other than protest.
aug 19, 2025, 5:57 pm • 6 0 • view
Facism.
aug 19, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
How I spent my summer vacay defying authoritarian assholes.
aug 19, 2025, 5:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Texas is already acting like a fascist country, arresting political prisoners, and forcing the opposition to sign detention papers.
aug 19, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
She's spent 24 hours being held hostage. Fixed your headline.
aug 19, 2025, 5:51 pm • 36 1 • view
how she gonna poop?
aug 19, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey Journalism Majors at CNN: Quit calling it an "escort." They're armed guards stalking her, and every House Dem is under a form of House Arrest.
aug 19, 2025, 5:58 pm • 23 0 • view
Call it what it is. This is kidnapping!
aug 19, 2025, 5:54 pm • 8 0 • view
THE CNN MAGAts LOVE SEEING A BLACK WOMAN HELD AS A PRISONER BY MAGA. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE ISRAELI RUN NETWORK SUPPORTED TRUMP
aug 19, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view