At the outset we are David Lytel, a Democratic activists and campaign professional and his list of more than 750,000 ardent Democrats. And you, if you join us. David was the first person hired in the Clinton White House specifically (in 1993) to work full time on guiding the growth of the Internet. He was also co-developer of Whitehouse.gov, called by Wired “easily one of the best sites on the Net.” A former member of the Ithaca City Council, he holds a B.A. with honors from Brown University, an M.S. from Ithaca College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in American Politics and Government. After receiving his doctorate, he worked at Harvard’s Kennedy School and taught at Georgetown. In 2004 he founded and ran the Committee to Redefeat the President, headquartered online at redefeatbush.com. It organized Tuesday Night Democratic Clubs where it provided volunteers with cell phones and lists of unregistered voters. To find unregistered Democrats it created the inverse of the voter file, a file with the names of eligible people not registered to vote. In 2024 he ran RedefeatTrump.com which advocated strenuously for a huge investment in registering the 42% of Americans who do not vote.
