Scottie Nell Hughes (born 21 June 1980) is an American journalist, news anchor and political commentator who was employed by RT.

[5] After losing the majority of its cable and satellite coverage following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, RT America ceased operations on March 3, 2022.

[7] Her first network TV appearance was on CNN's Piers Morgan Live, where she defended the right to keep and bear arms; her brother Cliff had been shot and killed, before she was born.

She also was in the first group of radio talk show hosts sent by the Department of Defense to travel to the front lines of Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq and Kuwait, as well as the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

[9][15] In a live interview broadcast on CNN the day before the 2016 presidential election, she confused the word "Molotov" with mazel tov, a Jewish expression of congratulations or good luck, when she stated that a video by rap music artist and Hillary Clinton supporter Jay-Z begins "with a crowd throwing mazel tov cocktails.