“For me, this was opposition research,” Donald Trump Jr. told Sean Hannity on Tuesday night on Fox News. “Someone sent me an email — I can’t help what someone sends me. I read it, I ...

Opposition research exists mostly in the political shadows. So perhaps it's fitting that this boot camp is in an generic conference room in a generic airport hotel outside of Washington, D.C.

That’s because for the past three years, I've run the largest opposition research effort focused on Trump in the Democratic Party at American Bridge 21st Century. Our work digs deep.

Opposition research was largely a campaign side project until this decade. Ahead of the 2016 presidential race, it fully blossomed into a multimillion-dollar industry because deep-pocketed ...

Political opposition research, once a mostly unmentioned dark art, has turned into a garish, multimillion-dollar enterprise complete with logos, marketing strategies and indiscriminate, real-time ...

Opposition research projects are effective with any size campaign. The first project I ever did was for a small town mayor in North Alabama which evolved into more than 100 political races to ...

This has led to the practice of posting opposition research books in full on the Internet — the term of art is an “oppo dump” — so that it can be miraculously “discovered” by the campaign.

Being an opposition researcher is a lot like being an NFL offensive lineman — you only seem to get noticed when something goes terribly wrong. In December 2022, as the New York Times started ...

Opposition Research: For Campaigns of All Sizes By Paul Singer. Posted October 27, 2010 at 7:01pm ‘Tis the season of 20-year-old divorce records, drunken-driving arrests , criminal complaints by ...

Alex Pareene: Opposition research—the practice of digging up dirt on your political opponents—is often referred to as a dark art. The term evokes memories of dirty tricks and October surprises .

We're talking about opposition research — basically, digging up dirt on your political opponents. Bryan Anderson joined WFAE's Marshall Terry to discuss "oppo" in North Carolina politics.