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In Wake of Trump Tariffs, John Deere Announces Mass Layoffs [1]
['Robert Mccoy', 'Malcolm Ferguson', 'Edith Olmsted', 'Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling']
Date: 2025-08-19
“The speaker announced, once quorum was restored, that the call of the House would remain, and any member that was out because of the quorum break would be required to sign a permission slip agreeing to be under the authority of [the Texas Department of Public Safety] in order to leave the Capitol. I refused,” Democratic Representative Nicole Collier told NPR’s Texas branch. “I refused to sign the permission slip to be able to leave the Capitol. I disagree with that authoritarian tactic that they have taken.”
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’
"I disagree with that authoritarian tactic"
https://t.co/2m1Z5sA1Ywpic.twitter.com/8JogaC3GD6 — philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 19, 2025
Over 50 state Democrats left Texas two weeks ago in response to the Republican Party’s attempt to reshape voting districts to favor Republicans to gain more House seats in the 2026 midterms elections.
This is a blatantly unethical power grab, and the Texas GOP knows it, which is why it’s trying to hold Democrats hostage unless they have a police officer by their side. If this was happening in any other country, words like “authoritarian” or “draconian” would likely be used. Yet Texas Democrats are being forced to capitulate, scared to even leave the House floor to sleep in their homes.
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[1] Url:
https://newrepublic.com/post/199266/donald-trump-tariffs-agriculture-john-deere-mass-layoffs
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