Overview
- Veasey filed just before the deadline for the Democratic primary for county judge and confirmed he will not seek an eighth term in Congress.
- He enters a Democratic field with Commissioner Alisa Simmons and Millennium Anton Woods Jr., while Republican incumbent Tim O’Hare faces no primary opponent.
- Texas’ court-allowed 2025 redistricting moved the 33rd District fully into Dallas County, removing Tarrant County and much of Veasey’s current constituency.
- Tarrant County has swung between parties in recent cycles, and O’Hare won the county judge race in 2022 with 53% of the vote.
- The move comes as Rep. Jasmine Crockett filed for U.S. Senate, Colin Allred left the Senate race to seek the reconfigured 33rd District, and Pastor Frederick Haynes III filed in the 30th.