Inside House Dems’ Most “Vicious” Internal Fight in Decades
14th August 2025
Axios, a Voice of the Crust.
House Democrats are looking on in agony as Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) appear destined to duke it out for a single congressional district.
And there you have the Dramacrat party in a nutshell. A 36-year-old going up against a 78-year-old. If they were motivated by principle, the old guy would retire and let the new guy carry the torch. But it’s not about principle. It’s about power, perquisites, and status. The new guy is going to have to pry that seat out of the cold dead hands of the old guy, because it’s all about power and money, and nobody (especially a Democrat) gives up power and money without one hell of a fight.
Casar and Doggett would share a single Austin-based district under the new congressional map that Republican state legislators in Texas are proposing.
Even Axios, Voice of the Crust, realize that the Republicans are going to win this redistricting fight, so all of this “flee the jurisdiction” play-acting is just virtue-signaling for the Narrative Media, because that’s all fhey’ve got. Performance art is the scraping from the bottom of the Democrat barrel. To quote the late great Tom Lerer: “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs.”
Doggett, who has been repeatedly targeted by Republicans in redistricting during his over 30 years in Congress, currently represents much of Austin and its suburbs.
Casar, a former Austin city councilman first elected to Congress in 2022, represents parts of southern and eastern Austin in a district that snakes down to San Antonio. Under the new map, the Austin portions of his district would be merged with Doggett’s.
So this re-arrangement would actually un-gerrymander the district that Casar now represents. But no Voice of the Crust like Axios is going to mention that, because it doesn’t fit the Narrative. “Austin and its suburbs” is one of the five or six Blue pustules on the rosy Red butt of Texas, a place where all of the proglodytes in the Lone Star State go to enjoy California-without-the-taxes.