Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first. She told me that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.”

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Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first. She told me that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.”

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But many of Crockett's colleagues declined or ignored my interview requests. Senior staffers for some of those colleagues told me that some of the members see Crockett undisciplined—but are reluctant to criticize her publicly.

Some of Crockett’s fellow Democrats find her candor refreshing. “People don’t necessarily agree with her aggressive communication style,” Representative Julie Johnson of Texas told me. “I’m thrilled she’s doing it, because we need it all.”

The problem is that the forthrightness Crockett's supporters love seems to be undermining her relationships in the party.

“She likes to talk,” one staffer told me. “Is she a loose cannon? Sometimes. Does that cause headaches for other members? 100 percent.”

Jasmine Crockett is testing out the idea that when Republicans go low, Democrats should meet them there.

Republicans understand this, Crockett told me. “Marjorie is not liked by her caucus, but they get her value, and so they gave her a committee chairmanship.”

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Last year, Crockett was a keynote speaker at the DNC and a national co-chair of the Harris campaign. This year, she's been a top party fundraiser.

Everywhere we went, people wanted selfies, and yelled things like "First black woman president!"

Crockett is famous for her hearing-room quips and social-media insults. You might know her as the lawmaker who said that MTG had "a bleach-blond, bad-built, butch body."

At the time, I wrote that that episode was embarrassing for everyone involved. But clearly it resonated.

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If, as America's Doctor, Casey Means can make us all healthy again, then that's great, her critics say. They simply doubt that Means or her Republican allies are willing to do what that would take.

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My story about the MAHA movement here, in @theatlantic.bsky.social

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