CSV #45 Jasmine Crockett got everyone on full alert.

CSV #45 Jasmine Crockett got everyone on full alert.

Texas Congress woman Jasmine Crockett is here to stay. And this woman is about to shake up Congress and create a diverse change.
Funny thing is the naysayers on Social media posting the negativity and clickbait headlines about Jasmine Crockett.
Hear the joke they don’t even live in Texas.
Next November 2026 the mid term elec elections is your chance to make a change.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made it official: The high-profile political flamethrower is running for the U.S. Senate.

The move was not a surprising one, but it did finally bring resolution to the weeks of her very public consideration of whether to get into the race, which had previously featured both ex-Congressman Colin Allred and state Representative James Talarico.

Crockett’s impending announcement prompted Allred to drop out, setting up a head-to-head contest with Talarico, a much-hyped political figure in his own right who’s built a large social media following around his personal religiosity and rhetorical skill.

Crockett rose to political fame in Washington, D.C., as a fiery MAGA foil after succeeding longtime Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson in representing the historically Black 30th Congressional District, but Crockett got her start by winning a state House seat back in 2020.

A former public defender, she’s a polarizing figure—beloved by many in the national Democratic rank-and-file as a brash fighter and derisively mocked by Trump and his faithful. She wasn’t widely seen as a potential statewide candidate in Texas, which has been uninterruptedly red since the 1990s, until her name started popping up in polling atop every other Dem in the state.

It was then that she started really considering the case.
Her decision to get in the Democratic race to face off against either incumbent Senator John Cornyn or one of his challengers, who include Attorney General Ken Paxton, has sparked backlash among both armchair analysts and Dem apparatchiks who think she’s uniquely positioned to lose the state in disastrous fashion—potentially risking any down-ballot upside from a predicted 2026 blue wave.

Crockett, meanwhile, says that she’ll be uniquely capable of rallying the party’s base and mobilizing millions of non-voters to come out for her.

The Texas Observer spoke to her last week about her decision to run, the Democratic Party’s struggling brand, and her potential GOP opponents.