Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born March 29, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Crockett graduated from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts and from the University of Houston Law Center with a Juris Doctor. Afterward, she was a public defender in Bowie County, Texas, and later formed her own law firm. She was elected to the Texas House in 2020, succeeding Mayor Eric Johnson. In 2026, Crockett was a candidate in the U.S. Senate election in Texas, losing the Democratic primary to state representative James Talarico.
Crockett was born in St. Louis to Rev. Joseph Crockett and Gwen Crockett. She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain Academy. She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from Rhodes College. She attended Thurgood Marshall School of Law prior to graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 2006 with a Juris Doctor.
From 2007 to 2010, Jasmine Crockett was an attorney for Bowie County Public Defender's Office. In 2010, Crockett ran for and lost in the Bowie County district attorney race. She was later elected to chair Bowie County's Democratic Party. In 2010, Crockett started her own law firm, Crockett Law PLLC, which operated until 2022. Her law firm represented victims of alleged police brutality.
In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to become mayor of Dallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term, which Lorraine Birabil won. 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.
In the summer of 2021, Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, including Crockett, organized a quorum-bust in an attempt to stop the passage of legislation they saw as restricting voting rights in the state. These representatives flew to Washington, D.C., to lobby the United States Senate to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act. Crockett supported maintaining the quorum break, however she returned to the state once quorum was reestablished and the legislation stalled in the Senate. Three bills she co-authored became law. These included legislation that wiped certain in-court fees for recently incarcerated persons and criminalized financial abuse of the elderly.
On November 20, 2021, incumbent representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett. Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC giving in support of her campaign. In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to U.S. representative Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election, which Crockett won. She then won the general election on November 8.
During the 118th Congress, Crockett served as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly-elected Democratic members. In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Joe Biden, Crockett accused fellow congresswoman Marjorie 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 President Donald Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from the FBI 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 secretsâÂÂlooks like in the shitter to me."
In July 2023, Crockett and Congressman Lance Gooden introduced the Secure Testing Resources Instead of Prosecuting (STRIP) Act, which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to change federal rules that currently ban the use, sale, import, and export of fentanyl testing strips as they are classified as drug paraphernalia. She pushed back on Republican proposals to cut food stamps and pressed the U.S. Postal Service on its labor practices after the death of Eugene Gates Jr., a Dallas letter carrier who collapsed on the job during a heat wave. She invited Gatesâ widow to be her guest at the 2024 State of the Union address.
In November 2023, Crockett and Congressman Max Miller of Ohio introduced the Farm to Fuselage Act, which is a bipartisan proposal aimed at boosting U.S. production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by integrating it more directly into federal agriculture programs when Congress updates the Farm Bill so farmers can more easily grow crops used for sustainable aviation fuel, helping expand cleaner jet fuel production in the U.S. She co-sponsored a bill called the Resilient Employment and Authorization Determination to Increase National Employment of Serving Spouses (READINESS) Act, which aims to help military spouses keep their federal government jobs when their service member partner is transferred to a new duty station.
In February 2024, Crockett has introduced House Bill 7412 to fix administrative barriers in the Rural Housing Voucher program that make it harder for elderly and disabled Texans in rural areas to access housing assistance. The bill would simplify notices, encourage landlords to accept vouchers, and streamline approvals for at-risk tenants as part of broader reforms to the Rural Housing Service Reform Act and the U.S. Department of AgricultureâÂÂs Section 515 rural housing program. She also cosponsored the Connect the Grid Act, which will require Texas to connect its independent power grid to neighboring states and reduce the autonomy of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The bill represents a major challenge to Texasâ long-standing policy of maintaining an independent power grid and would significantly reshape how the state manages and trades electricity.
In March 2024, Crockett obtained $510,000 in community project funding for Glenn Heights and helped secure $80 million in federal infrastructure grants for North Texas through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In August 2024, Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention. When comparing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Trump, the Republican nominee, she said of the latter, "He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chairâÂÂy'all know what I said the other time." She served as a co-chair of the 2024 HarrisâÂÂWalz campaign.
In January 2025, Crockett was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee. In March 2025, Crockett called Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is handicapped and uses a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels" and a "Hot Ass Mess" at a speech onstage during Human 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. Representative Randy Weber filed a censure resolution against Crockett.
In June 2025, Crockett announced her candidacy for ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. She later withdrew from the race to become the ranking member after placing last in the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee vote. In November 2025, Crockett endorsed Christian Menefee for the January 2026 Special Election Runoff for Texas's 18th Congressional District. In December 2025, Crockett and Rep. Morgan McGarvey and Sens. Rand Paul and Cory Booker reintroduced the Breonna Taylor Act, which is legislation that will ban no-knock search warrants nationwide. In January 2026, Crockett endorsed Frederick Haynes III to be the representative for Texas's 30th congressional district.
In December 2025, Crockett announced her bid for U.S. Senate in Texas in the 2026 election. In the Democratic primary, she faced state representative James Talarico and perennial candidate Ahmad Hassan. In February 2026, Crockett was criticized for seemingly using AI in a Super Bowl campaign advertisement, to generate a crowd of supporters. The criticism was first raised by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards, who claimed to have found a SynthID watermark in the ad, indicating the use of Google Gemini. Crockett's team did not deny the allegations. Former Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed Crockett. On March 3, 2026, she lost the Texas Senate Democratic primary to Talarico. After her concession, Crockett released a statement calling for unity: "Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win."
Crockett has been labeled as a progressive Democrat; however, Crockett has personally distanced herself from the label, calling her positions "common sense".
Crockett has voted against rescinding Title IX protections, against limits on abortion-related coverage for servicemembers and against funding for anti-abortion centers.
Crockett supports reform to the current filibuster rules in the Senate, including creating carveouts for certain categories of legislation like voting rights.
Crockett proposed a law that would allow people facing nonviolent misdemeanors to receive citations instead of jail time. She filed bills that she said would minimize police contact with Black and brown people and save them from "unreasonable uses of force."
Crockett supports raising the national minimum wage of $7.25. In May 2025, Crockett voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which she referred to as "the Big, Ugly Bill".
Crockett, who owns a firearm and is licensed to carry, supports a ban on assault weapons. She has opined that private individuals owning assault weapons is "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." She acknowledges that passage of an assault weapons ban in Texas is likely not politically achievable.
Crockett voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security and voiced support for impeaching homeland security secretary Kristi Noem.
Crockett's voting record on issues related to the IsraeliâÂÂPalestinian conflict, including support for several pro-Israel resolutions and military aid measures during the Gaza war, has drawn criticism. Crockett frequently frames her position as supporting Israel's security while pushing for humanitarian protections and ceasefire language. Americans for Justice in Palestine Action has given her low marks on issue-based scorecards and have urged her to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. In August 2023, she took a trip to Israel with Party leadership to tour the Iron Dome.
Track AIPAC has characterized Crockett as having "a poor legislative record on IsraelâÂÂPalestine issues". According to Track AIPAC, she has received over $100,000 from donors who also donated to pro-Israel lobby groups. In response, she accused Track AIPAC of being "MAGA plants who are meant to disrupt and confuse".
Crockett supports expanding the number of justices on the court and the adoption of an enforceable code of ethics for the justices.
In 2023, Crockett reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act in the house, which would enfranchise millions of convicts who have been released from prison. Crockett said that only federal legislation can prevent millions of Texans from being disenfranchised and warned the changes could affect upcoming midterm elections, including Governor Abbott's re-election race. She described the fight over voting rights as a "modern-day civil rights movement."
In an Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Crockett responded to the following statement by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading." Committee chairman James 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?" Comer responded with "... a what, now?" On August 19, 2024, the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Crockett spoke about Republican nominee Donald Trump and asked, "will a vindictive vile villain violate voters' vision?"
Crockett is a Baptist, and is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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