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I use Ballotpedia.org and RealClearPolitics.com for my political research.

Ballotpedia.org pays to get four different ongoing lists of data from the Cook Political Report, Decision Deck HQ and The Hill, Inside Elections, and Sabato’s Crystal Ball and updates them every Tuesday for all House and Senate races.

I find that invaluable and it directs all my political giving to races.

I send money to the races that are “Toss Ups,” or “Leans,” from those analysts.

You can see what I'm describing, here:

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2024

There used to be one called “Explore the Networks” that documented a lot of connections between different ganglia of the Left Wing Hive.

Here is one to find links between corporations and who is connected to a corporation and what other ones they are connected to

Corporation Wiki

The corporate wiki is not as good as it used to be. The older version you could look up someone like Bill Clinton and it would give you a graphic with clinton in the center and lines drawn from him to everything he was connected to and the interconnections between those. It seems the new one doesn’t do that anymore

I'm no expert. I have never even looked at this but years ago I read that they big hitters in the nation rely on LexisNexis.

This is the political site and the service is costly as far as I know.

I believe it is a WebCrawler or archive or maybe both. I think is might be worth investigating. You might find someone with access that can let you use it or tell you if it is worthwhile.

“Bonne chance, mon ami”

It would help if I gave you the link:

https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/professional/research/politics.page?srsltid=AfmBOoqtrYt2n_Ssl4yJudF2_OHmO940ksx7aInbDuBxZjx7ce3ZxN9i

I did opposition research for the GOP on staff for many years and researched hundreds of political figures in that capacity and in various other campaigns and political and legal fights. I took down quite a few fish and ended some political careers.

There is no secret set of websites to use. Every target is different, with much depending on the state and community they are from, their career, and the office they are in.

Generally, you want to start by getting all of the target's personal financial disclosures and campaign finance filings, which are usually in local, state, and federal election offices. Online access is now the norm.

Also do comprehensive internet and newspaper searches in the target's name. Your local public library can probably give you free access to NewsBank and other newspaper databases, possibly even from your home computer.

Collect the news articles, disclosures, minutes, agendas, agenda packets, and other materials that document the target's career in office. This should all be done over the internet or otherwise as anonymously as possible.

Research the target's personal finances and business and professional history, not just through their disclosures but also by searches in the local property and court records.

Most states make their corporate and partnership filings available online. You should collect all your target's corporate affiliations and research them in those databases.

After the first hunt and gather effort, look for patterns and affiliations in the material you have collected. I usually print out the key documents and analyze them, again and again, looking for hits, leads, and additional places to search. You may end up with hundreds of pages of documents and analytical materials.

Think of it as if you are profiling your target for a newspaper article or as a foreign intelligence target. Your scrutiny and assumptions should be hostile but factual. As the old saying goes, few politicians escape unscathed from a good shake -- and its your job to shake them (methaphorically) until their teeth rattle.

You are looking for controversies and lapses that involve the target. Who are they? Who are their family and business associates? How does your target make a living? Do they get sued or run up traffic violations? Are they scrupulous or sloppy in their personal, professional, and political dealings? Are there any ethics violations, failures to disclose, or conflicts of interest?

Your instinct is correct that one way to research a target is to find connections between their personal, business, professional, and campaign finances. To do this comprehensively is difficult because it means researching all the corporate and partnership names you find and collecting the personal affiliations, while doing the same for the personal names of the target and those closely connected to him.

This requires doing many tedious and time-consuming one by one searches in databases and keeping track of the results. You can use index cards, a spreadsheet program like Excel, or a relational database program like Access or MySQL.

Happy hunting.

Here is a practice search for you that will give you an idea about what can be found from just Wikipedia alone. Here is one that ties both Democrats and Republicans together into a joint bipartisan conspiracy headed by the NWO global financial corporations. A news release this morning had me digging into this entity and connections.

https://revolver.news/2024/11/imran-khan-populist-hero-on-verge-of-death-after-never-trump-biden-official-had-him-imprisoned/

Victoria Nuland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

Now chase all those associations and organizations down layers deep from her page and the dots will connect for you.

You can do this on your own, just dedicate yourself and keep digging deeper into all the connections you find.

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Lawfare has become the most dangerous attack on our country.
Throughout Trump’s presidency a single judge or court would
overturn Trump’s actions.
So, I’m researching judges on my voter ballot.
I’m using https://freespoke.com/
as a search engine. I find their web page if they have one to see
where they stand on the issues, then I go to their social media page.

I find that FreeRepublic is still the best for searching.
Many articles have been removed from the internet.
But there are still excerpts on FR.

FreeRepublic 7/14/2024 3:30 PM
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4251263
Trump assassination attempt

https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4044069
200306 Ukraine Russian War

https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4043395
200303

8/20/2022
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4087063

9/1/2022
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4090198

3/21/2022
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4048593

3/15/2022, 10:24:02 AM
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4046944

3/6/2022
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4044312

3/1/2022
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=4042876

10/3/2020
https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=3890100

9/26/2020
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