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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling is an associate writer covering breaking news at The New Republic. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Gothamist and The Real Deal.

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October 21, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Forced to Admit He Screwed Up With MAGA Senate Candidate
Donald Trump acknowledged that Michael Whatley is likely to lose to Roy Cooper.
October 20, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Falls Asleep After Declaring He’s Going to Crack Down on Fraud
Donald Trump announced a tip line where people can call in what they suspect is fraud in exchange for a financial reward—and then promptly dozed off.
October 20, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump, 80, Says Minnesota Now Has Fewer Lakes Thanks to Somalis
Huh?
October 20, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Officials Gave Terrifying Order About Voting Machines
One cybersecurity official feared they would use the results “to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like.”
October 20, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Rubio Tells People to “Grow Up” About Trump Meeting Putin and Xi
Marco Rubio brushed off Donald Trump’s plans to meet with the foreign leaders.
October 20, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
JD Vance Forced to Acknowledge Trump Doesn’t Really Like Him
Vance isn’t sure how long Donald Trump would take to endorse him in 2028.
October 16, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Giuliani Is Using Legal Defense Fund for Anything But Legal Defense
Here’s what Rudy Giuliani as actually spending the money on.
October 16, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Picks His Scapegoat for Midterms Bust—and It’s a Doozy
Donald Trump isn’t going to shoulder any blame for his party losing in November.
October 16, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Washington Post Journalist Hospitalized After Israeli Settler Attack
The settlers also robbed reporter Heidi Levine after attacking her.
October 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Press Secretary Admits She Was in “Sort of a Pyramid Scheme”
Katie Zacharia’s résumé included a stint at a fitness MLM.
October 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“She Could Barely Read”: Trump Team Trashes New Press Secretary
Leaked texts show what the White House really thinks of Katie Zacharia.
October 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Has Trump Put His Most Powerful Aide on The Chopping Block?
Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Susie Wiles.
October 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump, 80, Appears to Invent New Cognitive Test He Aced
“Person, woman, man, camera, TV,” meet “hat, hair, logo, white, black.”
October 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s New Press Secretary Tries to Backtrack on Her China Answer
Katie Zacharia says she misunderstood the question, “What state did [you] pass the bar exam in?”
October 14, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Throws Trump Under the Bus for Ukraine Intel Disruption
The tech billionaire said that systems that went offline during a Russian missile attack that killed nine are “owned and controlled” by the U.S. military and “ultimately POTUS.”
October 14, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“Demonic Stuff”: Kansas GOP Accuses Democrat of Being a Witch
Ty Masterson had a lot to say about witchcraft while speaking at a Wichita church this weekend.
October 14, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Kash Patel’s FBI Statistics Are All Wrong
The FBI director has been juking the stats.
October 14, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Ukraine Blames Trump Administration for Russian Missile Intel Blunder
The administration blamed “bad weather” for failing to alert Ukraine about missile strikes that killed nine. Ukrainian officials aren’t buying it.
October 13, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Why Is the President Sharing Videos of Animals Maiming Humans?
Donald Trump keeps posting violent videos.
October 13, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
WTF Was Trump’s New Press Secretary Doing in China?
Katie Zacharia says she passed the bar when she moved to China. What was she doing there?

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