The Texas House is debating the GOP's redistricting plan ahead of a final vote that could add five more Republican U.S. House seats. NBC News' Ryan Chandler reports the latest from the statehouse chamber in Austin.

Texas Republicans are likely to pass their redistricting plans on Wednesday following weeks of Democrat protests

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday kicked off a heated debate over a new congressional map creating five new potential GOP seats that is expected to pass the chamber later in the day as part of a growing national redistricting battle.

Democrats said Republicans in the Texas House crossed a line by detaining them en masse and then assigning state troopers to trail them everywhere they go.

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.

Former President Barack Obama has expressed support for California Governor Gavin Newsom’s approach to redistricting

Upon returning after a 15-day walkout, Texas House Democrats were asked for consent to be escorted off the floor by DPS officers. Nicole Collier refused and was locked in the chamber Monday night.