About / Research Team
OppIntell is a small, specialized opposition-research team. The people below own the source coverage, citation framework, and editorial posture that every public briefing inherits. They shape what OppIntell publishes long before any individual post is drafted.
Senior Research Analyst
Jasmine leads federal-cycle research at OppIntell, with a background in political science and seven years of opposition-research work across competitive Senate cycles. She specializes in tracing federal donor networks through FEC filings and matching contribution patterns to public statements and policy positions.
Campaign Finance Analyst
Michael came to OppIntell from a campaign-side finance role and a stint covering money-in-politics for a regional newsroom. He focuses on reconciling FEC committee filings with state-level disclosures so independent expenditures and bundler activity surface in the same research record as the candidate they affect.
State Filings Specialist
Priya manages OppIntell's state-by-state ingestion coverage, working directly with the 47 Secretary of State adapters and county-level sources that feed candidate research. Her background combines public-records journalism and civic-data engineering, and she is the analyst most likely to know why a particular state filing changed shape this week.
Methodology Lead
Daniel owns the research-methodology layer at OppIntell: the citation validation framework, the publish guard, and the source-posture rules that keep generated briefings honest. He previously built data-quality systems for a public-records vendor and writes most of the internal style guidance the rest of the team works from.
Senior Research Analyst, Gubernatorial
Karen anchors OppIntell's gubernatorial coverage, drawing on a decade of state-government reporting and three cycles inside competitive governors' races. Her current beat tracks open-seat dynamics, executive-branch appointment trails, and the procurement records that tend to follow incumbent governors out of office.
Senior Research Analyst, House Battlegrounds
Anders covers the House battleground map at OppIntell after eight years on competitive congressional campaigns and a research stint at a national party committee. He focuses on how frontline members' floor records line up with their district's recent presidential margins and which votes are likely to surface in fall messaging.
Senior Research Analyst, Statewide Executive
Renee leads OppIntell's coverage of statewide executive offices below the gubernatorial line, with prior work as a legislative analyst in two state capitols. She tracks attorneys general, secretaries of state, treasurers, and the constitutional offices whose records often go under-examined relative to the campaigns they run.
Senior Research Analyst, Federal Senate
Tobenna joined OppIntell from a Senate-side legislative office and a previous role doing research for a national independent-expenditure group. He builds challenger and incumbent profiles for Senate races, with particular attention to cross-state donor flows and the committee-assignment history that shapes a senator's public record.
State Filings Specialist, Northeast
Maeve runs OppIntell's Northeast filings desk, covering the patchwork of Secretary of State systems from Maine through Maryland. She came up as a public-records reporter for a Boston-area newsroom and now spends her time reconciling state legislative candidate registrations with municipal-level filings the larger systems miss.
State Filings Specialist, Southeast
Carla manages the Southeast region for OppIntell's filings team, working across the SoS adapters from Virginia down through Florida and west to Louisiana. Her background is in civic-tech work for a state elections office, and she is the analyst the team turns to when a county election board changes its disclosure format mid-cycle.
State Filings Specialist, Mountain West
Nadia covers the Mountain West for OppIntell's state-filings team, with prior experience administering elections data for a regional good-government nonprofit. Her current work covers Secretary of State portals across the interior West and the rural county systems that often hold the only authoritative copy of a candidate's paperwork.
Campaign Finance Analyst, Outside Spending
Elena focuses on the outside-spending side of OppIntell's finance coverage, tracing 501(c)(4) flows and independent-expenditure committees back to their underlying funders where disclosure allows. She previously worked as an investigative researcher for a nonpartisan transparency group and writes most of the team's internal guidance on dark-money attribution.
Campaign Finance Analyst, Grassroots Donors
Jameel covers the grassroots-finance side of the desk at OppIntell, with a background in data analysis at a national fundraising platform before moving into research. His current work focuses on small-dollar donor patterns, bundler disclosures, and reconciling platform-level data with what eventually shows up in FEC filings.
Voting Record Analyst, House Floor
Sarah handles House floor-vote research at OppIntell after six years as a legislative-affairs analyst for a trade association. She specializes in distinguishing substantive votes from procedural ones, and in surfacing the discharge petitions and motion-to-recommit records that often tell a more complete story than headline tallies.
Voting Record Analyst, Senate Committees
Yuki covers Senate committee work for OppIntell, with prior experience as a committee staffer and a research role at a Washington policy shop. Her beat centers on markup transcripts, nomination votes, and the amendment-authorship patterns that often signal where a senator's actual priorities sit relative to their floor speeches.
Polling and Demographics Specialist
Devon leads OppIntell's polling and demographics work, building on a career that includes survey-research roles at two national firms and a stint at a university polling center. Day to day, his attention is on district-level demographic shifts and the crosstab patterns that get lost when public polls are summarized by toplines alone.
Voter File Research Specialist
Lourdes runs voter-file research at OppIntell after eight years as a targeting analyst at state and federal campaign committees. Her current work focuses on registration-trend analysis and the kind of voter-file matching that lets the team tie a candidate's claims about their base to what the file actually shows.
Endorsements and Coalitions Analyst, Labor
Gabriel tracks labor endorsements and coalition activity for OppIntell, drawing on prior work as a political-affairs staffer at a building-trades council. He maintains the team's union-endorsement timelines and the records that connect public-employee union backing to specific legislative asks made of the candidate in question.
Endorsements and Coalitions Analyst, Trade Associations
Hana covers trade-association and industry coalition activity at OppIntell, with a background in government affairs at a regional chamber and several cycles of independent research consulting. Her work centers on industry PAC endorsements, association scorecards, and the coalition sign-on letters that often precede formal endorsements by months.
Legal and Ethics Analyst
Walter handles legal and ethics research at OppIntell after a decade as a public-records litigator and several years advising a state ethics commission. He runs the team's FOIA pipeline, monitors state ethics filings, and pulls the court records that periodically reframe a candidate's stated background.
Data Engineering Lead
Imani leads data engineering at OppIntell, owning the ingestion pipelines, the adapter framework that talks to fifty-some Secretary of State systems, and the citation-validation plumbing the research team relies on. She previously built data infrastructure at a civic-tech nonprofit and a regional investigative-journalism collaborative.
Newsroom Desk Lead
Brett runs the newsroom desk at OppIntell after fifteen years as a politics editor at two regional dailies. He sets the editorial standards, walks borderline drafts through the source-posture rubric with the methodology team, and signs off on the pre-publication QA pass that every research record goes through.
Cycle Context Analyst
Catherine handles cycle and historical context for OppIntell, with a graduate background in American political history and prior research roles at two national party committees. Her current work translates redistricting changes and prior-cycle benchmarks into the comparison points the rest of the team uses when sizing up a 2026 race.
Quote and Statement Researcher
Kenji runs the quote and statement desk at OppIntell, building the archive of public statements, debate transcripts, and social-media history that backs almost every claim the research team publishes. He came to the role from a fact-checking position at a national news outlet and a previous stint as a debate-prep researcher for statewide campaigns.
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