Helen Huiskes

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Helen covered Congress, campaigns, and western states for NOTUS.

Helen received her bachelor’s degree in English from Wheaton College in Illinois, with a minor in international relations. She spent three years as editor in chief of The Wheaton Record, where she also covered breaking news, faculty cuts and campus debates over race. Helen has interned at the Portland-based alt-weekly Willamette Week and The Chronicle of Higher Education in D.C., and her work has appeared in Christianity Today.

Inside the Senate Showdown Over Nominations That’s Threatening August Recess

July 29, 2025 06:57 p.m.
Senate Republicans Side With Trump and Acknowledge Starvation in Gaza

July 29, 2025 05:28 a.m.
Senators Battle Over Trump Nominations. August Recess Could Be at Stake.

July 25, 2025 05:26 a.m.
Inside Trump’s Push to Charge International Visitors More to Visit National Parks

July 24, 2025 05:34 a.m.
Senate Republicans Consider Defying Trump on a Sacred Issue: Their August Recess

July 22, 2025 05:28 a.m.
Senate Democrats Say They Can’t Trust Republicans on Appropriations

July 21, 2025 05:38 a.m.
Senate Passes Rescission Bill Less Than 48 Hours Before Deadline

July 17, 2025 06:36 a.m.
Second-Quarter Hauls Show Republicans Keeping Up Their Fundraising Numbers

July 16, 2025 05:00 a.m.
‘We Should Put Everything Out There’: Speaker Mike Johnson Reverses on Epstein Files

July 15, 2025 07:07 p.m.
Michael Waltz Is Trying to Become UN Ambassador. Senate Democrats Are Trying to Make Signal-Gate Stick.

July 15, 2025 02:06 p.m.
‘I’ll Just Leave It at That’: Republicans Look to Stay Out of the Epstein Controversy

July 14, 2025 09:21 p.m.
Democrats Find Their 2026 Message: The Reconciliation Bill Is Not ‘Who We Are’

July 11, 2025 05:38 a.m.
Senate Republicans Race Against the Clock on Rescissions

July 09, 2025 06:40 p.m.
Republicans Are Already Licking Their Lips at the Chance of Another Reconciliation Bill

July 09, 2025 08:30 a.m.
Senate Turns Its Attention to DOGE Cuts — With the Clock Ticking

July 07, 2025 05:18 a.m.
Planes, Rains and Automobiles: Lawmakers Struggle to Get to D.C. With Reconciliation on the Line

July 02, 2025 05:15 p.m.