Expecting Republican to get put away - dope! (4)
I believe the answer is:
info
'dope' is the definition.
(dope can informally mean information)
I don't understand how the remainder of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for info that I've seen before include "Dope" , "Intelligence (abbr)" , "What's known" , "Gen (colloq.)" , "Gen (abbr)" .)