Firebrand progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, has made it official—she is entering the Texas Senate Race in 2026.
On Monday, ahead of an anticipated “special announcement” in Dallas, a Texas Democratic Party spokesperson confirmed to Fox News that Crockett had filed her candidacy.
Crockett released a campaign video on Monday that simply showed Crockett sitting in front of a gray background, wearing all black, and silently listening to names President Donald Trump has called her in the past.
“Jasmine Crockett’s launch video for Senate was unlisted on YouTube and it’s just President Trump calling her a ‘low IQ person’ over and over again,” Greg Price, a GOP strategist and consultant, posted on X.
Monday was the day of the filing deadline to run for the United States Senate.
The same day, former Rep. Colin Allred cancelled his bid for Senate in the Lone Star State, instead opting for a run for Texas’ 33rd Congressional District.
With Allred out of the primary, she will have to contend with Democrat state Rep. James Talarico, who has amassed a large social media following and appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
The senate primary is heating up on the Republican side, too.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, an incumbent of over two decades, is up for reelection in 2026 and is facing primary challenges from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas.
The 2026 Texas Senate primaries for both parties will take place on March 3, 2026—in roughly three months. If no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in either of the primaries, a runoff election will be triggered on May 26, in which the top two candidates in a primary would face off.
Crockett, 44, is originally from Missouri, and later moved to Texas, and has served in the House of Representatives since 2021, building a reputation as a firebrand after a viral verbal spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
In 2024, for example, she delivered an impassioned response to Republicans’ opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring practices in a House committee hearing, telling them, “There has been no oppression for the white man in this country. You tell me which White men were dragged out of their homes.”
Crockett added, “Don’t let it escape you that it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y’all are the ones being oppressed, that y’all are the ones that are being harmed. That’s not the definition of oppression.”
In 2025, she referred to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, who is wheelchair-bound, as “Governor Hot Wheels.”
Crockett’s candidacy reinforces a major reshuffling of the Texas U.S. House map, with court-affirmed redistricting legislation appearing likely to flip nearly a half dozen Democrat-held seats and many prominent Republican House members choosing to depart for other offices or for retirement.
