Crockett was the hand-picked replacement for the late U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Her progressive nature precedes her time in Congress, having been anointed the Texas House's third-most progressive member per the Texas Tribune, after she was sworn in 2021.

At the core of The Atlantic’s unnecessarily long profile on loud Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the argument that, “when the Republicans go low, the Democrats should meet them there.” As Rachel Jeantel so famously put it,

Texas, reportedly wanted to "revok[e] all permissions" from The Atlantic ahead of a profile piece that was published on Sunday.