Dallas, TX – Fresh off her now-infamous CNN appearance where Rep. Jasmine Crockett sneered about “white tears” without so much as a raised eyebrow from the anchor, the freshman firebrand has bigger problems than cable-news backlash. The new congressional map — PLANC2333, has surgically removed Crockett from Texas District 30. Yes, her own district. The one she’s held for less than two years.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t a minor tweak. This is a full-on redistricting gut punch.
Under the old lines, TX-30 was a comfortably Democratic, majority-minority seat that stretched from downtown Dallas south almost to Red Oak—an anchor of Black political power in North Texas. 42% Black, 35% Hispanic, 16% White. Median income $71k. Poverty rate is pushing 16%. A district drawn, let’s be honest, to elect someone exactly like Jasmine Crockett, who would become the embodied spirit of the once race-baiting Shelia Jackson Lee (deceased).
The new TX-30 snakes along I-30 through downtown, clips the eastern edge at I-175, and hugs the Dallas County line to the south. The areas carved out (shown in red on Pipkins Reports map) were the heart of Crockett’s old base—south Dallas neighborhoods that reliably turned out for her. In their place (blue on the map) come whiter, more affluent precincts to the west. The demographic shift is brutal: Black voting-age population down, Hispanic share down, White share up. Translation? TX-30 just became a swing district masquerading as a D+20 stronghold.
And then there’s the real kicker: District 33, currently held by Marc Veasey, now swoops in like an upside-down U, wrapping around the new TX-30 and swallowing huge chunks of downtown Dallas. That new TX-33? It’s a demographic kaleidoscope—White, Black, and Hispanic populations are almost perfectly balanced. Turnout will decide everything. Good luck predicting who wins that one.
If Crocket chooses to continue on in TX-30, she is likely to face a tough road. This is what happens when you spend your first term auditioning for MSNBC panels instead of building goodwill back home. You rant about “white tears” on national television, you mock colleagues across the aisle, you forget that even safe seats can be made unsafe with a few strokes of a GIS pen. The Texas Legislature has sent a message, and it’s written in precinct-level data: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The Texas Secretary of State confirms the candidate filing window for the 2026 primaries opened Saturday, November 8, and closes at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, December 8, 2025—Crockett, Veasey, and every other incumbent now playing musical districts have less than a month to decide where (or if) they’re running.
Constitutional conservatives have been warning for years that the era of bulletproof, identity-carved districts was coming to an end. The courts demanded “compactness” and “communities of interest.” The GOP in Austin finally delivered. And the first casualty? A loudmouth progressive who thought performative rage was a substitute for legislating.
Marc Veasey’s seat is scrambled too, by the way. In fact, half of Dallas just woke up in a different congressional universe.