[2] David Bender's five-decade career as a political activist began at the age of twelve when he took a "leave of absence" from the seventh grade to become a full-time volunteer in the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Politically Direct briefly held a weekly time slot, after which Bender voluntarily ended the program in May 2007 to later join Air America's Ring of Fire as one of three co-hosts.
It features over forty original interviews ranging from Pete Seeger and Joan Baez to Willie Nelson and Sir Elton John.
Subsequently, he served as chief of staff and liaison to the entertainment community under Roy Furman, finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee during President Clinton’s first term.
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts was a one-night-only reading of a play adapted directly from the Mueller Report by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.
Staged in New York City’s historic Riverside Church on June 24, 2019 before an invitation-only audience, The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts starred Annette Bening, John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Joel Grey, Michael Shannon, Alfre Woodard and Zachary Quinto.