Jasmine Crockett | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromTexas's30th district | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Eddie Bernice Johnson |
| Member of theTexas House of Representatives from the100th district | |
| In office January 12, 2021 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Lorraine Birabil |
| Succeeded by | Venton Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jasmine Felicia Crockett (1981-03-29)March 29, 1981 (age 44) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Education | Rhodes College (BA) Texas Southern University University of Houston (JD) |
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| Website | House website Campaign website |
Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born March 29, 1981) is an American politician serving as theU.S. representative forTexas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of theDemocratic Party, she represented the100th district in theTexas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
After graduating fromRhodes College with aBachelor of Arts inbusiness administration and earning aJuris Doctor from theUniversity of Houston Law Center, Crockett was apublic defender forBowie County, Texas, and later worked as apersonal injury lawyer before her entry into electoral politics. She was elected to the Texas House in 2020, succeeding MayorEric Johnson. In 2022, Crockett was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing amajority-minority district based inDallas. Among her assignments, in 2025, Crockett was seated on theSubcommittee on Oversight of theUnited States House Committee on the Judiciary.
Crockett is a candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas for2026, with her announcement of candidacy in December 2025 gaining widespread coverage.[1][2][3][4]
Crockett was born inSt. Louis, Missouri, to parents Rev. Joseph and Gwen Crockett.[5] She attendedMary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School andRosati-Kain Academy.[6]
While Crockett was performing inLittle Shop of Horrors at Rhodes College, a professor recognized her public speaking ability and encouraged her to joinmock trial, where she began developing her legal voice.[7] The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer. When she got racist hate mail and her black friends' cars were keyed[8] she explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought inThe Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time."[9] She graduated in 2003 with aBachelor of Arts inbusiness administration.[10]
She began law school atThurgood Marshall School of Law atTexas Southern University before graduating from theUniversity of Houston Law Center in 2006 with aJuris Doctor and soon passed thebar examination.[11] She was a member of theNational Bar Association and of the Dallas Black Criminal Bar Association.[10]
Following her education, Crockett became a public defender for Bowie County, Texas and later formed alaw firm, which handled car accident lawsuits and tookpro bono cases forBlack Lives Matter activists.[9]
In 2019, afterEric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to become mayor ofDallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term, whichLorraine Birabil won.[12] Crockett challenged Birabil in the 2020 Democratic primary. She narrowly defeated Birabil in a primary runoff, advancing to the November 2020 general election, which she won unopposed. She assumed office in January 2021.[13][14]
In the summer of 2021, Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, including Crockett, organized aquorum-bust in an attempt to stop the passage of legislation they saw as restricting voting rights in the state.[15] These representatives flew to Washington, D.C., to lobby the Senate to pass theJohn Lewis Voting Rights Act and theFor the People Act, which would have superseded parts of the state legislation.[16] As the weeks went by, Crockett was one of the most vocal opponents of state representatives returning to the state before the Senate passed the legislation.[17][18]
During her tenure three bills she co-authored became law.[7] These included legislation that wipes certain in-court fees for recently incarcerated persons,[19] criminalizes financial abuse of the elderly,[20] and requiring state agencies to publish online summaries of rule changes.[21]
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On November 20, 2021, incumbent representativeEddie Bernice Johnson ofTexas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in2022.[22] Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett.[23][24] Crockett also received extensive financial support fromSuper PACs aligned with thecryptocurrency industry, withSam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC giving$1 million in support of her campaign.[25] In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to U.S. representativeMarc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election,[26] which Crockett won.[27] She then won the general election on November 8.[28]
During the118th Congress, Crockett served as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly-elected Democratic members.[29]
In a2023 impeachment hearing for PresidentJoe Biden, Crockett accused fellow congresswomanMarjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans of hypocrisy. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, and those who brought forth charges against Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of PresidentDonald Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from theFBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside a bathroom (and in other locations lacking security), to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me."[30][31][32]
Crockett addressed the2024 Democratic National Convention and referenced the incident. When comparing Democratic presidential nomineeKamala Harris to Trump, the Republican nominee, she said of the latter, "He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chair—y'all know what I said the other time."[33] She won a second term to House of Representatives in 2024.[34] She was a co-chair of the2024 Harris–Walz campaign.[35]
In March 2025, Crockett called GovernorGreg Abbott, who is handicapped and uses a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels" and a "Hot Ass Mess" at a speech onstage duringHuman Rights Campaign's annual dinner. Crockett denied that the comment had to do with Abbott's condition, instead saying that it referenced the "planes, trains, and automobiles" he used to transfer migrants to Democratic communities. In response, Abbott stated: "It's another day and another disaster by the Democrats."[36] RepresentativeRandy Weber filed acensure resolution against Crockett.[37]
In June 2025, Crockett announced her candidacy for ranking member of theCommittee on Oversight and Government Reform. She later withdrew from the race to become the ranking member after placing last in theHouse Democratic Steering and Policy Committee vote.[38]
In December 2025, Crockett announced her bid for U.S. Senate in Texas in the2026 election.[46] In the Democratic primary, she faces state representativeJames Talarico and perennial candidate Ahmed Hassan.[47][48]
Crockett is one of seven black women who have announced a run for the Senate in the 2026 elections, includingRobin Kelly,Pamela Stevenson,Catherine Fleming Bruce andJuliana Stratton.[49][50]
In February 2026, Crockett came under criticism for seemingly usingAI in aSuper Bowl campaign advertisement, to generate a crowd of supporters. The criticism was first raised by Democratic strategistKeith Edwards, who claimed to have found a SynthID watermark in the ad, indicating the use ofGoogle Gemini. In a response, Crockett's team did not deny the allegations.[51]
A member of theCongressional Progressive Caucus, Crockett has been labeled as aprogressive Democrat. Crockett, however, has personally distanced herself from the label, calling her positions "common sense".[52][53][54]
Crockett owns a firearm and is licensed to carry, though supports a ban on assault weapons, having stated "it's the equivalent of some of these people having a cannon... People literally have almost no chance of surviving when some of these weapons are used."[55] She acknowledges that passage of an assault weapons ban in Texas is likely not politically achievable.[53]
Crockett's voting record on issues related to theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict, including support for several pro-Israel resolutions and aid measures during theGaza war, has drawn criticism from some progressive and Palestinian rights advocacy organizations, which give her low marks on issue-based scorecards and have urged her tocall for a ceasefire in Gaza.[56]Track AIPAC, an anti-AIPAC organization, has characterized her as having "a poor legislative record on Israel–Palestine issues".[57]
On the issue of Supreme Court reform, Crockett supports expanding the number of justices on the court and the adoption of a enforceable code of ethics for the justices.[58][59]
Crockett supports reform to the currentfilibuster rules in the Senate, including creating carveouts for certain categories of legislation like voting rights.[58][59]
Crockett has usedalliteration in public speaking. In anOversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Crockett responded to the following barb by RepresentativeMarjorie Taylor Greene: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading." Committee chairmanJames Comer ruled that this remark did not violate House protocol. To clarify the limits on personal comments, Crockett asked "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"[60][61] Comer responded with "... a what, now?" On August 19, 2024, the first night of the2024 Democratic National Convention, Crockett spoke about Republican nominee Donald Trump, and asked, "will a vindictive vile villain violate voters' vision?"[62]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) | 4,566 | 29.3 | |
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 4,030 | 25.9 | |
| Democratic | Sandra Crenshaw | 2,944 | 18.9 | |
| Democratic | Daniel Davis Clayton | 1,665 | 10.9 | |
| Democratic | James Armstrong III | 1,315 | 8.5 | |
| Democratic | Paul Stafford | 1,046 | 6.7 | |
| Total votes | 15,566 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 5,171 | 50.4 | |
| Democratic | Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) | 5,081 | 49.6 | |
| Total votes | 10,252 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 45,550 | 100.0 | |
| Total votes | 45,550 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 26,798 | 48.5 | |
| Democratic | Jane Hope Hamilton | 9,436 | 17.1 | |
| Democratic | Keisha Williams-Lankford | 4,323 | 7.8 | |
| Democratic | Barbara Mallory Caraway | 4,277 | 7.7 | |
| Democratic | Abel Mulugheta | 3,284 | 5.9 | |
| Democratic | Roy Williams | 2,746 | 5.0 | |
| Democratic | Vonciel Hill | 1,886 | 3.4 | |
| Democratic | Jessica Mason | 1,858 | 3.4 | |
| Democratic | Arthur Dixon | 677 | 1.2 | |
| Total votes | 55,285 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 17,462 | 60.6 | |
| Democratic | Jane Hope Hamilton | 11,369 | 39.4 | |
| Total votes | 28,831 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 134,876 | 74.72 | |
| Republican | James Rodgers | 39,209 | 21.72 | |
| Independent | Zachariah Manning | 3,820 | 2.12 | |
| Libertarian | Phil Gray | 1,870 | 1.04 | |
| Write-in | Debbie Walker | 738 | 0.41 | |
| Total votes | 180,513 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 43,059 | 91.5 | |
| Democratic | Jarred Davis | 3,982 | 8.5 | |
| Total votes | 47,041 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jasmine Crockett | 197,650 | 84.9 | |
| Libertarian | Jrmar Jefferson | 35,175 | 15.1 | |
| Total votes | 232,825 | 100.0 | ||
Crockett is aBaptist[64][65] and a member ofDelta Sigma Theta sorority.[66]
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromTexas's 30th congressional district 2023–present | Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | United States representatives by seniority 305th | Succeeded by |
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