Did Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett announce she donated $25 million to victims of the flash floods that hit her home state over the July 4th, 2025 holiday weekend? No, that's not true. Thanks to earlier fact checks that reviewed her public financial disclosures, it's clear that Crockett does not have enough wealth to fund a gift of that magnitude. We found no corroboration of the widely shared post about the supposed gift, nor of the post's claim that Crockett had personally joined rescue and recovery efforts on the ground. The post made extensive use of Cyrillic letters that are homoglyphs for Latin-script letters, a common trick to foil anti-spam and anti-plagiarism filters on the web.
The claim appeared in a July 7, 2025 blog post with the headline "BREAKING NEWS: Jasmiпe Crockett Doпates $25 Millioп to Texas Flash Flood Victims - Persoпal Haпds-Oп Help Stυпs Faпs" (archived here) which opened:
In a shocking and heartwarming act of generosity, U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett has donated a staggering $25 million to aid victims of the devastating flas floods that have devastated Texas. The deadliy floods, which have caused widespread destruction and left many people missing, have sparked an overwelming outpouring of support from communities across thenation. However, what has left fans in complete awe is the revelation that Crockett personally traveled to the disaster site, offering her hands-on assistance to search and rescue efforts.
Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail:
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The story was false, and was shared with a viral post on Facebook, (archived here).
Lead Stories researched her balance sheet for a February, 2025 fact check, finding that her publicly documented net worth was somewhere between -$46,997 and $29,999. Her May, 2025 personal financial report is not yet available on the website of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.
A search of Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) for the words "Crockett donates $25 million AND flood" yielded no relevant results.
On her official X account, Crockett posted only two items about the flood recovery effort by July 7, 2025: a July 5th morale-focused item expressing sympathy and support for those in the flood zone, and a July 7 announcement that she'll hold "mobile office hours" in Southeast Dallas on July 10 to assist people seeking help with federal agencies offering funds and other support.
Several online tools, like this one, help malicious users evade filters by substituting "homoglyphs", or letters from other languages, that look like the English/Latin alphabet. This is useful in phishing αttαcks, domain spoofing and efforts to bypass AI detectors. Here's an annotated screenshot of the headline on the blogpost, which uses the Cyrillic "H" character where English's Latin text would use an "N":
(Source: scoreus.livextop.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Similarly, the following screenshot shows body text of the post substitutes the Cyrillic "H" for the Latin "N" and the Cyrillic "Y", for the Latin "U":
(Source:scoreus.livextop.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Readers will find other Lead Stories debunks of fake storm donation stories collected here.)
