Greg Casar
ON THE RECORD · 22 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“We need regular mandatory independent safety testing and oversight, mandatory disclosure of security incidents, and international cooperation to keep people safe from absolute disaster.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-23
Casar wrote on social media after the hack renewed calls for increased regulations and oversight of AI companies.
“We’re talking about the future of voting rights for Texas and for the entire country.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar emphasized the national importance of the battle over Texas voting rights.
“Even the Republican members say they have not seen these maps and that it makes them nervous.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar noted that Republican members of Congress are nervous about unseen redistricting maps.
“is will they stand up for themselves and their own constituents, or are they just water boys for Donald Trump.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar questioned whether Texas Republicans would defend their constituents or serve Donald Trump.
“That includes quorum breaks, filibusters, marching in the street, pressure on the Speaker of the House, [and] well-funded campaigning against every Republican member of Congress who goes along with this.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar listed tactics Democrats should use, including quorum breaks and campaigning against Republicans.
“To me the penalties are clearly unconstitutional and unenforceable,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar dismissed penalties codified by Texas Republicans against quorum breaks as unconstitutional.
“The question that is before Texas Republicans today,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar challenged Texas Republicans over their response to Donald Trump's redistricting efforts.
“What Donald Trump wants to do by trying to gerrymander five more seats in Texas [is to] essentially end the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar argued that Trump's push to add Republican seats in Texas threatens the Voting Rights Act.
“If you look at Texas’ map, it’s already illegal and gerrymandered,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar criticized Texas's current congressional map as illegal and gerrymandered.
“This is a five-alarm fire, what’s happening in Texas,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar sounded the alarm regarding Donald Trump's push for redistricting in Texas.
“He doesn’t want Republican members of Congress to really get a chance to look at these new maps. He certainly doesn’t want the American people to get a chance to look at these maps.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar accused Trump of trying to prevent lawmakers and the public from examining the new maps.
“The mobilization isn’t happening fast enough yet. Trump is trying to get all of this done in the next week or two,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar urged faster Democratic mobilization against Trump's redistricting push.
“We need the mobilization to happen much quicker. This is a five-alarm fire that people are just now starting to notice,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar reiterated the urgent need for mobilization against Texas redistricting.
“could be vulnerable to a primary challenge from the right and an insurgent Democrat from the left. So Democrats need to have a campaign operation ready to go to take on any Texas Republican whose seat is now more vulnerable,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar suggested that redrawn districts could make Texas Republicans vulnerable to challengers.
“If Trump gets his way and radically redraws the entire Texas map, then Texas Republicans could start representing a completely different area of the state in a couple weeks than they represent today,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar pointed out how Trump's redistricting plan could abruptly change the areas represented by Texas Republicans.
“We have to be ready to go to win back the Democratic seats, even if they make them even more gerrymandered. And we need to have every legislative tool on the table, from filibusters to quorum busts to marches in the streets of Austin, every option on the table.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar called for Democrats to use all legislative and campaigning tools to win seats in Texas.
“The Voting Rights Act is written to try to make sure that Hispanic and Black Americans do not have their neighborhoods chopped up into tons of little slices, so that their voting power is completely diluted,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar explained the core purpose of the Voting Rights Act in protecting minority voting power.
“In order for Trump to get four or five more seats out of an already gerrymandered Texas, I think they would most likely have to completely disenfranchise black and Latino neighborhoods all across the state.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar argued that gaining more Republican seats in Texas would require disenfranchising Black and Latino communities.
“Donald Trump has already said that if he does this to Texas, he wants to do this all across the country.”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar warned about the national implications of Donald Trump's redistricting efforts.
“This is about something much greater than any one congressional district,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar argued that the fight over Texas redistricting transcends any single congressional district.
“I don’t know, and virtually no members of Congress know,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar stated that lawmakers are unaware of how their districts might be reshaped.
“Democrats need to have every option on the table,”
Greg Casar · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Rep. Greg Casar argued that Democrats must consider all available options to stop redistricting in Texas.