Jasmine Crockett lost the Texas Democrat Senate primary to James Talarico in March and has been bitter about it ever since.
Since then, she's been torching the party that still needs her.
Now a fellow Democrat has said publicly what the party has been whispering for months.
Crockett FIRE PAC Funds Everyone Except Talarico as Texas Senate Race Tightens
Rep. Jasmine Crockett's FIRE PAC – short for Fueling Individual Rights Everywhere – has raised $144,960 since she launched it after losing to James Talarico in March. The PAC cut checks and made endorsements for 14 candidates: county judges, state legislators, congressional colleagues in other races.
The one name missing was Talarico's – the man whose primary win ended Crockett's career in Congress.
This wasn't an oversight. Crockett was asked directly on CNN whether she'd campaign with Talarico. She didn't hesitate. She said she'd focus on down-ballot Democrats instead – candidates she hadn't been able to help while running her own Senate race.
When pressed, she added that winning wasn't just about one race.
That's not a strategy. That's a grudge dressed up as principle.
Talarico is trading leads with Ken Paxton in one of the most-watched Senate races in the country – in a state Democrats haven't won a Senate seat in since 1988.
Crockett built her entire brand on being a fighter for the black communities whose turnout could decide it. She decided that fight isn't her problem anymore.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a California progressive who endorsed Crockett in the primary, went on television and begged her to reconsider. "She is an extraordinary asset. We need her on the team," Khanna said.
Even Khanna couldn't move her.
Instead, Crockett posted on Threads, traveled the country for other candidates, and flew to St. Thomas to endorse a congressional colleague for governor – keeping her PAC resources away from the one race that defines her party's midterm ambitions.
Democrat Civil War Breaks Open as Colleague Calls Crockett a Narcissistic Drama Queen
Three-term Pennsylvania congresswoman Susan Wild is a Democrat. When she posted her reaction to Crockett's endorsement list on X, she wasn't sending a coded message. She was done.
"F— her. That's all I can say," Wild wrote. "It has everything to do with her being a narcissistic drama queen who has used her platform (such as it is) only to advance herself. Karma will suck."
This is a congresswoman whose own predecessor – the late Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson – reportedly had second thoughts before her death about the endorsement she'd given Crockett, telling a Texas Democrat strategist that Crockett was dismissive of her experience and advice.
Crockett’s former staffers described her as rude and abusive to work for.
This is a congresswoman who called a sitting governor "Governor Hot Wheels," described Marjorie Taylor Greene as having a "beach-blond, bad-built, butch body," honored abusive rapper Chris Brown in the congressional record while defending it, and told CNN audiences that America might not even have elections in 2028 – then attacked John Fetterman for wearing a hoodie when he pushed back on her.
Redistricting took her House seat. She packs up the office in January.
Her response to Wild and others was telling. She told critics to check the facts and complained that the media wasn't covering Paxton enough.
She posted a manifesto declaring she wouldn't give "an ounce of energy to addressing anything remotely negative" until Election Day. She wants the party to fight Republicans while refusing to fight for the party's own Senate nominee.
James Carville warned Democrats months ago that a civil war was inevitable – but that it had to wait until after November. Crockett didn't get the memo.
Neither did the Bernie Sanders wing, which spent 2026 picking fights with incumbents, torpedoing unity, and elevating candidates whose records dissolved on contact with basic research.
The loudest voices in the Democrat Party have decided their personal brands matter more than November.
Talarico is fighting to win Texas. Crockett is protecting a brand she'll need in January. Susan Wild just wrote the review.
Sources:
- Leo Briceno, "Jasmine Crockett Torched by Ex-Dem Colleague Over Who She Left Off Endorsement List," Fox News, September 29, 2026.
- Matt Margolis, "Why Won't Jasmine Crockett Campaign With Talarico?" PJ Media, August 28, 2026.
- "Even the Liberal Media Can't Whitewash Jasmine Crockett's Toxic Narcissism," Washington Free Beacon, 2026.
- "Nasty Democrat Spreads Fear Porn As Liberals Continue To Implode," OutKick, 2026.
- "ICYMI: Bernie Sanders Fans Flames of Democrat Civil War," GOP.com, July 20, 2026.