Rep. Crockett said because of the newly drawn Congressional maps by Texas Republicans, she’s considering running in a different Congressional district than the one she is representing now.

Texas voters are furious that the state GOP is trying to silence their voices, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Tuesday — and they're making their voices heard. Democratic state lawmakers have been absent from the state for over a week to block passage of a heavily gerrymandered mid-decade redistricting plan,

At an event in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted by progressive advocacy group MoveOn, Crockett spoke out after Democratic state lawmakers fled Texas on Sunday in an effort to stop a redistricting vote that would create a new Republican-approved congressional map.