Rep. Jasmine Crockett is two months into her Texas Senate campaign, and her team already can't keep its policy pages straight. A series of policy pages launched last week on Crockett's campaign website included placeholder template text — "Write out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works," — sitting right on her mental health policy page, visible to anyone who bothered to click.
That wasn't the only problem. A gun control bullet point somehow migrated onto her Social Security policy page, where it had no business being. Both errors have since been corrected, but not before CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere flagged them publicly.
This is the candidate Texas Democrats are supposed to rally behind for a statewide race with a March 3 primary already on the calendar.
According to the New York Post, the mental health page featured four bullet points with checkmark icons. One of them addressed requiring major insurance providers to include full mental healthcare coverage, including prescription medications and therapies. Then, without so much as a line break, the page continued with the website builder's default instructions — a how-to guide for writing a campaign page, published as the campaign page itself.
The full text, as it appeared on jasmineforus.com:
"Requiring all major insurance providers to include full mental healthcare coverage, including prescription medications and therapiesWrite out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works"
No punctuation between the policy language and the template. No indication that anyone on the Crockett campaign reviewed the page before it went live. One social media user captured the moment perfectly:
"The staff member who generated this garbage for her website couldn't even figure out how to use AI to make the task take less than a minute? How embarrassing!"
Andrew Feinberg of The Independent offered his own assessment of the placeholder instructions: "To be fair, that's not bad advice." It is, in fact, not bad advice — for someone building their first Squarespace site, not running for U.S. Senate.
The website debacle landed during a week when the Texas Democratic Senate primary was already devolving into internal warfare — and not over policy differences, but over a racial accusation that has consumed the race's oxygen.
Influencer Morgan Thompson accused state Rep. James Talarico, who is running against Crockett in the primary, of describing former Rep. Colin Allred as a "mediocre black man." Talarico pushed back last week:
"In my praise of Congresswoman Crockett, I described Congressman Allred's method of campaigning as mediocre. I would never attack him on the basis of race."
Allred — who was the Democrats' standard-bearer in the 2024 Texas Senate race before dropping out of the 2026 cycle late last year to run for a House seat instead — wasn't interested in Talarico's clarification. He posted a video on social media that torched Talarico and endorsed Crockett in one swing:
"I understand that James Talarico had the temerity and audacity to say to a Black woman that he had signed up to run against a mediocre black man, meaning me. This man should not be our nominee for Senate. I was not going to get involved in this race, but don't come for me unless I send for you, OK James? And keep my name out of your mouth."
So let's take stock. The Democratic primary features one candidate who can't publish a functioning website and another who's fielding accusations of racially charged comments based on a secondhand account from an influencer. Allred, who lost statewide and then abandoned his second Senate bid, has now inserted himself as kingmaker. This is the Democratic bench in Texas.
The Republican side of the Texas Senate race features Sen. John Cornyn, Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt — a competitive primary with candidates who have actually governed, litigated, and legislated at scale. Whatever emerges from the GOP contest, the eventual nominee will face a Democratic opponent whose campaign is either publishing template instructions as policy or relitigating internal racial grievances a month before the primary.
Crockett's website lists co-sponsorship of the Social Security Fairness Act, the Protection of Social Security Benefits Restoration Act, and the Stop The Wait Act. Those are real pieces of legislation. But when your campaign can't execute the basic task of filling in a web template before publishing it to voters, it raises a fair question about operational competence — the kind of competence a statewide campaign demands and a Senate office requires.
The errors got fixed. The screenshots didn't go away. And with March 3 approaching, Texas Democrats are heading into a primary where the frontrunner's most memorable policy rollout was a set of instructions she forgot to delete.