About Pablo

PABLO MANRÍQUEZ has covered Congress since January 6, 2021, his first day on the Capitol beat. His coverage of the MAGA attack ran on the front page of El Tecolote, the bilingual community newspaper serving the Mission District in San Francisco. Latino Rebels soon hired Pablo as their first Washington Reporter where he established himself as a daily news reporter on “the underdog beat” in the House and Senate.

In 2023, The New Republic made Pablo a contributing editor after landing a series of exclusive interviews with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gisele Fetterman, Dear White Staffers, among others. Later that year, Pablo began writing for Vanity Fair. For the Hive, Pablo has profiled J.D. Vance, Mitch McConnell, Byron Donalds, John Thune, Mike Johnson, and John Fetterman.

Photo by Matt Laslo (2023)

BEYOND THE NEWSROOM, Pablo is a self-taught artist with a popular side hustle oil painting political portraits, dozens of which now hang in the Capitol complex. Washingtonian, The Bulwark, Politico, and C-SPAN have featured Pablo as an artist.

In 2024, Pablo live-painted for the first time at President Joe Biden’s final State of the Union Address from a balcony above Statuary Hall, then again at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Born in Chile and raised in Missouri, Pablo earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of Notre Dame where he interned in the British House of Commons during his junior year abroad in London.

When not oil painting or news reporting, Pablo enjoys yoga, karaoke, and spending time with Roxy, a very good girl he met through the sheros at Petey and Furends, a woman-led dog adoption agency in the Beltway. Pablo is on X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn.