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Texas "fired" Democratic U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett by redrawing its congressional districting map in August 2025.
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After a two-week standoff with Democrats in the state legislature, on Aug. 21, 2025, Texas House Republicans approved a new state congressional map designed to give Republicans an advantage by at least five new seats during the midterm election in 2026. The map has to be approved by the state Senate before it goes to the governor to sign into law. Texas Republicans' attempt to redistrict in the Republican Party's favor kicked off an unusual mid-decade redistricting battle fought among states controlled by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Following the map's approval by the House, social (archived) media (archived) posts, including an X post (archived) viewed over 11 million times, declared the state had "fired" Democratic U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Some (archived) posts (archived) explicitly claimed she was fired "due to Texas' redistricting," which they claimed "eliminated" her seat in Congress.
This claim is false. Crockett was not fired and remains in Congress as of this writing. The Constitution doesn't authorize states to "fire" a member of Congress. Texas' new map wouldn't even effectively fire her; Crockett's district was and remained heavily Democratic before and after redistricting.
As of Aug. 21, 2025, Crockett's profile on Congress' website still listed her as an active member of Congress.
Crockett represents Texas' 30th district, which is largely located in south Dallas. Before redistricting, the district had a heavy Democratic lean; Crockett was reelected with about 85% of the vote in 2024. The new map didn't make significant changes to Crockett's district. According to the Texas Tribune, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris would have won the district by 47 points. According to Dave's Redistricting, a nonprofit, volunteer-driven database for Congressional maps, the 30th district previously had a partisan lean that was +55 for Democrats, while the new 30th district has a partisan lean of +53 for Democrats.
In an interview with CBS, Crockett said the new map would put her home in the neighboring 33rd district. House members only have to live in their district's state, not in the specific district they represent, according to the House Archives website. Crockett told CBS in the interview that she was debating which of the two districts she'd represent.
But even if she ran in the 33rd district, she still wouldn't be "fired." The new 33rd district would be +40 for Democrats, according to Dave's Redistricting.
As to the notion of "firing" members of Congress in general, the 1998 Connecticut Office of Legislative Research report concluded that Article 1, Section 4 and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution combine to prohibit states from recalling — that is, allowing people to vote to remove from office — a member of Congress. A Congressional Research Service report last updated in 2012 said the Constitution doesn't authorize the recall of members of Congress and thus no member of Congress has ever been recalled. There are 19 states that allow recall elections, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. However, those states only permit the recall of state and/or local officials. No state has laws for recalling a member of Congress.
Snopes has previously fact-checked other claims about Crockett.
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