Voting Rights
Throughout history, and on great display at the turn of the decade, Texas has proven itself as a regressive home for voter access. Federal action is needed to protect voters, ensure access, and restore rights. From expanded vote-by-mail to online voter registration, Congresswoman Crockett will push for fair voting legislation that would bring Texas, and other states with outdated and harmful voting laws, into the 21st century.
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Washington, D.C.—In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30), alongside with Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-6), introduced two critical
WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) released the following statement after House Republicans failed to pass a continuing resolution bill to prevent a government shutdown. Republicans have until the start of the new fiscal year, October 1, to pass a funding bill to keep the government open and functioning.
To the 168,413 federal workers in Texas: I see you, and I fight for you.
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, July 27, Rep.
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) introduced bipartisan legislation to address the U.S. public defender shortage.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) released the following statement after voting against the House Budget Agreement.
“Trailblazers and tots,” said new Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, a civil rights lawyer now representing a Dallas-area congressional seat, giving a nod to the Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman in Congress, and the importance of supporting children. Rep.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, may be a politician but she’s not in office for political games.
Crockett said she came to voting rights accidentally. When she was a student at the University of Houston Law Center, she was late to sign up for a seminar class “so all of the ‘good ones’ were gone”, she said. She ended up in an election law seminar, and remembers thinking: “What am I going to do with this?”