US voting rights champion Jasmine Crockett: ‘I need everyone to feel a sense of urgency’

The congresswoman reflects on a whirlwind rise from Texas politics to Washington, and her hopes of passing a critical bill

In July 2021, Jasmine Crockett entered the US Capitol for the first time. Then a state representative, Crockett was a lead architect of Texas Democrats' unprecedented plans to board a flight and travel to Washington to break quorum in Texas and block Republicans from enacting the voting restrictions they were steamrolling in the state.

Less than two years later, Crockett came back to the Capitol, this time to be sworn in to the House of Representatives - one of 22 women and just 13 women of color in the class of 74 new freshmen.