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Semafor: I Cost the GOP a Senate Seat. Now I'm Doing It to 8 More. · The Aaron Day Show

• Welcome to The Aaron Day Show. I'm Aaron Day. I founded StarkFreedom PAC. We fund the margin. It costs the GOP, the Senate, eight states, eight candidates we back, eight songs we made for them. Here they are. New Hampshire. We back Ed Laplante of the Constitution Party. The song is Ed Laplante. It's a driving rock anthem. so kitchen tv pen in hand i voted johnson Johnson, who now voted yes on the Wall Street bailout To over, no, there's a Richmond mechanic Who names the Fed and the plant Johnson, who now said no I said no right back at him Johnson, who sat on a devil's panel As our senator It says no foreign wars, no foreign aid. Johnson and Newton joined a cable company board that'll lobby and firm. It fixed cars and clocked in at Walmart too to pay the medical bills. Under a hood in Richmond, it says the Fed answers to nobody. Johnson who never voted yes on the Wall Street bailout Too over now There's a rich man mechanic who needs a better plan I stand by the turn. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson who voted yes on the Wall Street bailout Do over No, there's a Richmond mechanic who names the Fed Ed LaPlan I'm Mark Ed LaPlan This advertisement was generated in whole or substantially by artificial intelligence. Texas, we back libertarian Ted Brown. The song is Mouthpiece for DC. It's an arena rock anthem. The Taliban in February Ken Paxton on the bandstand Swore off Washington, I'm not their person And I'm never gonna be their person And I clapped Paxton's mouthpiece for D .C. Ted Brown's the voice of Texas. Hey! I told her at the shop, but his phone played Paxson at a D .C. lobbyist lunch. It's all coming from D .C. I don't control message. Oh, what we're doing. Wipe my hands on my jeans and clap the white ball. Paxton's a mouthpiece for DC, Ted Brown's the voice of Texas. Hanging the gate, he never buys Ted Brown's sign. Brown bows to no party boss's words. I just don't have any goodies to offer. Shook on it. Paxton's a mouthpiece for DC, Ted Brown's the voice of Texas. hey and like what issues are gonna matter because it's all coming you know from dc mouthpiece for dc ted brown's the voice of texas these hands are mine again my vote my call Kansas. We back libertarian David Graham. The song is David Graham. It's a gritty plains rock anthem. Truck radio, fair debate, Roger Marshall. Common business practice, turning some people into collections. Some people, I'm some people. This line grandstand's got theirs. Marshall's practice suit, 700 patients, 81 arrested. There's a line out over Lampark, David Graham. Kitchen table, my ballot. Another doctor's collections letter. Marshall talks like I'm in the back. Kept reading past Marshall, David Graham, Overland Park. He ain't a Democrat, neither am I. Looked him up in 22, he wrote, freedom is the highest value. Marshall's back to suit, 700 patients. Anyone arrest a shame on you. There's a line at Overland Park, David Graham. Yeah! Check Marshall's box for years No shame Game is free Never out, hell, hell Marshals practice suit, 700 patients Anyone arrested, shame on you There's a line out of Overland Park David Graham, hell, hell Marshals practice suit, 700 patients Anyone arrested, shame on you There's a line out over Lampart, David Graham. My pencil, my life, David Graham. This advertisement was generated in whole or substantially by artificial intelligence. Michigan, we back Tim Long of the U .S. Taxpayers Party from Taylor. The song is A Line Out of Taylor. It's a hard rock anthem. phone says he built sebring remember those i voted for him 1981. my garage chicken state senator he asked me to remember so i did 1981 Mike Rogers built the Seabreeze The Seabreeze from 95 There's a line out of Taylor Tim Long Tim Long's on that valley Lives in Taylor Rogers came up 19 ,000 short This vote ain't the Democrats, mine never was. 1981, my garage has built a Sebring. A Sebring from 95, there's a line out of Taylor Town Hall. This street builds cars We know the years 1981 I just built a Sebring Sebring's from From 95, there's a line at a table, Tim Long. Pin off the pegboard. Feelin' Tim Long. This advertisement was generated in whole or substantially by artificial intelligence. Ohio. We back libertarian Bill Redpath. The song is 14 Marks. It's a raw garage blues rock anthem. radio call yeah the iron vote 14 times john hughes is in northern india it fell by 149 to 50 there's a line out of parisburg Real red fat Creased pencil on the drywall since March One mark for every Houston, no My nephew's over there His picture's by the marks Mark 14, same, know his marks I don't call him names, I count them so pencil stops on the page i end in 2008 it says black interface remember grows the government's power bill red pass signed it libertarian national chairman that's how i know the name same name got his own line on the november ballot john hughes March, 3 April, 3 May, 2 June, 3 July, 2 September, 1, 5, 4, 3 I know where my mark goes in November Pencils cap Iowa. We back libertarian Thomas Laehn. The song is Rechain the Dogs of War. It's a stomping arena anthem. harvest co -op measles past six a gallon my nephew deployed his picture as a visor ashley Hinson lights my phone shouldn't have to foot the bill at the pump He ups and says she wants the war to end immediately She voted no to ending it six times The county prosecutor already said it retained the Dawes Award Thomas Laehn Thomas Laehn words don't move the scale votes do Thomas Laehn preacher's kid from allison taught the constitution now prosecutes for green county she wants a successful and immediate end Thomas Laehn says, every war since Korea. Presidents have taken our country to war unilaterally Without a declaration of war from Congress Successful and immediate end Hinson said she wants the war to end immediately She voted no to ending it six times A county prosecutor already said it retained the dogs of war Thomas Laehn Houston said she wants a war to end immediately She voted no to end and it's six times The county prosecutor already said We changed the dog to war Thomas Laehn Nozzle clicks Still past six My mind's made up South Carolina. We back libertarian Kasie Whitener. The song is Kasie Whitener says no more. It's a stop and clap anthem. them. still over there. 49 said force the vote. 50 said no remark among them. Darling Graham's one vote kept a sad war. Kasie Whitener says no more than the vote to bring them out once short again. Same name, same mark. Move that one mark and the 50s are. Darling Graham's one vote kept a sad war. Kasie Whitener says no more. The governor's pen gave her that seat before one ballot dropped. She told the debate stage national security's not her thing. Darline Graham's one vote kept us at war. Kasie Whitener says no more Blame questions Time to end the war in Iran Kasie Whitener wrote her answer down Yes, out in the open For all of us to read Darline Graham's one book Kept us at war Kasie Whitener says no more Pickens County where she was born Went with the other man in the runoff That seeks on loan Come November that one vote comes home to us Darline Graham's one vote kept us at war Kasie Whitener says no more I mean, Graham's one book kept a sad war Casey Weidner says no more Minnesota. We back libertarian Rebecca Whiting. The song is Michelle Tafoya in a bucket. It's an upbeat dance pop anthem. Michelle Tafoya, pro -choice Republican, she said some of us out there. Put Michelle Tafoya in a bucket with the Democrat. You can't tell them apart. Break a wine can. For the war, Michelle Tafoya said skip one and coffee, stretch your gas. We are not worth it. in a bucket with the democrat you can't tell them apart rebecca whiting Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can Rebecca White in Can waiting can she says it's time for less 1984 more 1776 november 3rd her name's on your ballot Have it, have it, have it, have it. Your pants, the margin. Michelle's a lawyer in a bucket with the Democrat. You can't tell them apart. Rebecca Whiting. One more song. Our anthem for the whole fight. It's called Margin is Calling. Wakey wakey, margin is calling. Ooh, wakey wakey, margin is calling. Every autumn in your colors, every promised a song so sweet i will cut your energy prices in half within 12 months you lie slow dance under the lights you whisper no more wars you lie you lie held close one more value swore you'd drain the swamp. You lie. No more Jersey on reflex. No herd that votes the color. You'll burn the vote or lose the Senate. We are holding you accountable. Who pays? We fund. Do you hear the margin calling? We fund the margin. It costs the GOP, the Senate so hard to say goodbye. To the Senate. Who pays? We fund. Do you hear the margin calling? We fund the margin. Who pays? Cause the GOP, the Senate, so hard to say goodbye to the Senate. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. Who pays? We fund. Do you hear the margin calling? We fight for the margin. It costs the GOP the Senate. No herd, no jersey, no reflex. Earn the voter or lose the Senate. Who pays? We fight for the margin. It costs the GOP the Senate. We fight for the margin. It costs the GOP the Senate. No herd, no jersey, no reflex. Flex. Earn the vote or lose the senate. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. Wakey. that's all eight races and our anthem. Every song is at starkfreedom.org. Send one to someone who votes in one of these states. We go live at six. Stay right here. Can you hear me? I can hear you. How are you? Can you hear me? I can. Can you hear me? I can't hear you. Okay, that's surprising. Hold on. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? I'm definitely not muted. So, yeah. Let me try something here. Can you hear me now? So, you can't hear me? I can hear you. You can? Yes. Okay. Let me see. But you can't hear me. The audience can hear me. Let me see. It showed in the pre thing that it recognized the microphone. Yeah. I mean, again, people can hear me. And I can switch computers. let me try this can you hear me now um i'm just using my laptop and go outside um in a second All right. This is very bizarre because you are, I can hear you. I can see you. There doesn't seem to be any reason this isn't coming through. True. You know, I wonder if you have the audio going to a different source. There's a setting for the microphone and then a setting for the speaker. I wonder if you have, I've done that before. I wonder if you have the speaker set to a different audio source. so I really I think that that could be one one yep I can hear you there we go I hear an echo do you hear me yeah hold on I want to see yeah it's echoing it might be that you can hear through both of them hold on a second let me close this one I'm just wondering I wonder if you have the wrong speaker setting on the in stream yard if you click on the microphone icon sometimes it will default to a different speaker either settings for the microphone and a setting for the speaker and sometimes it'll go to an alternate source So. How about now? Well, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yeah. Hold on. Let me turn that one off. Can you hear me now? I can. No? Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, go ahead and talk. Let me see if I can hear you. Can you hear me? I'm talking now. Testing, testing. One, two, three. Okay. My guess is it's the settings in StreamYard. So click. Well, you can't hear me, but if you could. Yeah, just test the sound. Again, click on the, well. I'm trying to do it through my headset. See how windy it is outside. All right. Let me go ahead and come back in on my laptop. Okay. All right. Well, while Ernie's doing that, welcome back to the Aaron Day Show. Season 3. I don't know why it was echoing, though. Season 3, episode 37. Excuse me, episode 27. We have a very exciting episode tonight. night. I'm hearing an echo now. Yeah. Hold on. Let me turn off. All right. So, um, so, you know, obviously the last several episodes have been focused on, on politics, on the midterms, um, the use of a third party for political leverage and so forth. And, you know, I was thinking, well, who could I bring on as a guest to talk about this? And I ended up coming up with a short list of one person. There's only one person I could think of that would be perfect to talk about what's going on with this election and actually the intention and the strategy behind the super PAC because a lot of people don't understand it for a variety of different reasons. And so if you're not familiar with Ernie, you probably are if you're listening to this and you're a regular listener. And I've been on Ernie's show many times. But Ernie is an absolute OG in all things kind of liberty -related, political and nonpolitical. So he hosts Declare Your Independence out of Phoenix, publishes something called Freedom's Phoenix. He's actually had me on his show, looks like 10 times now. and um always loved going on there um he's uh he has a tremendous experience at set as i said both politically and non -politically he ran for arizona secretary of state as a libertarian in 1994 got six and a half percent of the vote and then ran again in 2006 he ran for libertarian party chair in 2008 and 2010. The man who beat him in 2008 is Bill Redpath, who is one of the candidates that we are supporting for the Ohio U .S. Senate race. He's, you know, as I've discussed on this show many times, I sued the Secretary of State in federal court and won using AI. Well, Ernie actually has sued the state without AI and won and took Arizona's ballot access rules to the Ninth Circuit. He's the guy behind the Levolution logo. So I'm wearing it right now. I have the revolution will be tokenized. But for Ron Paul's campaign, that was Ernie Hancock. And he came out saying that we're not going to vote ourselves out. and he's been doing other things. So he's building Occupy the Land, which is 18 acres in Arizona's West Valley. So it's a private mesh network and basically just completely getting off the grid, exiting the system. Sorry, are you there? Yeah, can you hear me? I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yeah, we're good. I just had to switch computers. All right, good. I was just doing an intro here. I don't know if you were hearing much of it. Yeah, I got it. He also launched Libertas .Earth with James Corbett. And of course, I had James on a month or so ago. I don't even know how long it's been now to talk about that. The philosophy of liberty, which has been translated in 54 languages and stored in a way that's censorship resistant. And so he is a true OG. I consider him a good friend. And again, I couldn't think of a better person to come on to talk about what's going on here with this political situation. And what I've described recently is a kind of a transition from this idea of just focusing on exit and build to expose, obstruct, exit and build. And I think that this political piece of this is key to obstructing what they're doing, because as quickly as we may be trying to exit and build, we are not moving. We're moving a fraction of a percent of the speed with which they're deploying technocracy. And so I think there are some really interesting strategies. I think this PAC is one of them. And I wanted Ernie to come on to talk about this and to talk about some of the dynamics because it's been a fascinating week, but a couple of weeks and the dynamics are rapidly changing. So thank you for coming on. Oh, my pleasure. And what you're doing, we've been following this tactic for 30 years. I mean, you know, all through the 90s, I started being an activist in the late 80s when I was 28. And then once I discovered libertarianism, like, you know, found my my home. But the point was, is that we were never really about affecting the outcome of the election. It was general public opinion. It was determining what was debated. It was making, you know, earning a lot of media. And we get on the soapbox to say our say. We didn't know the impact of getting five, six, seven, eight percent. Whoa. They didn't like that. None too much. And we weren't even looking at numbers. But what we were saying was resonating. So, of course, at the top of Freedom's Phoenix right now, we have the election, Maricopa County elections, which was always corrupt. And we knew that from a long time ago. Now everybody knows. They got caught slipping a USB drive into it and, oh, no. Well, you know, we got sorry. And so they do an ex post of explaining it doesn't matter. And so we understood the power of being a kingmaker. A lot of times, you know, like what you're doing, you know, we were going, you know, some of these uncontested races, they have an incumbent Republican and no Democrat. Hell, we'll go in there and play. We never really pursued that we could have because people knew we were libertarian. Just playing their game, you know, on their field with their referees, you know, and their sportscasters and so on. We're the guys in the end zone with the rainbow afro, you know, waving John 316 or something, you know. And but we had a lot of impact. By the end of the 90s, the Wall Street Journal came out and go, Arizona, the libertarian state. Man, they did not like that none too much. Then we did things. We had our own newspaper called CTI, Citizens Taking Initiative, where we filed a bunch of initiatives, like 36 initiatives one year of the legislation that we would do. Just the filing of those became bills. So, when, and then some of them law like concealed unrestricted concealed carry in Arizona, you know, a lot of education freedoms and reforms. We had a reduction in this tax and that tax. I mean, Free State Project, we were down for that, you know, before it was even selected. At our Freedom Summits in the early 2000s, we had the young man coming and putting up his table, and we had the only Freedom Summit that we ever had outside of Arizona was in Manchester when they first had selected it. The day after they selected on my radio show out of Scottsdale, what was her name? I think Amanda Phillips. You know, she came on the next morning to announce. So we understood the power of exactly what you're doing and what the mission was for bringing free people in a concentrated area. And once the population understands your philosophy, you know, labels don't matter. It doesn't make any any difference because when you have an opportunity to register your opinion at the ballot box, assuming it's accurate, which I'm not a fan of, like you're still voting. I mean, you know, but the to have that kind of impact forces the discussion. And what you're doing is you made it very clear why you're doing it. They had a chance to work with you. They didn't. You had, you know, secret plan B. We're going to do some whip ass. And this has been such a good example of the power we have when we make it clear this is payback. This is a block of votes that you don't have in your pocket. There are freedom -oriented, libertarian, leave -me -alone -ist, voluntarist, whatever, that will punish you for lying to them. And this entire Trump administration, all the campaigning he did, all the folksy whatever, you know, and war. You know, so, you know, I want to, before I turn it back to you, I want to make this one point. We were talking about this today on the show. We do the Trump report for 11 years, every week for 11 years. Dr. Tambury, he was a big Trump fan. Now he doesn't even vote anymore. It took me about nine, 10 years, but, you know, he's not voting anymore. But the we went and saw just as, you know, out with the girls, you know, our wives and went and saw the movie Melania. Now, Melania, that was her payback for Vogue not putting her on the cover and I'm first lady again, ha ha ha, whatever it was. But that whole movie was not really about Trump. It was about their life. And what you got is they are in a totally different strata. They do not have anything in common. You watch it, and it's okay. It was entertaining. She dresses well and fashionista. It doesn't matter. But it reminded me of Melda Marcos back decades ago when they were deposed from the Philippines, how she had 3 ,000 pairs of shoes, that kind of thing. And it was just so separate, this class of people, from the needs and desires and the perspective of the mass population out here. They can't understand. It's not available to them. They don't know. They may be able to, like, you know, Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis in Greece. It was a fantastic speech. speech. And I don't know who wrote it, but he's not going to abide by it. And the bottom line was, you know, Western culture is going to rise up again and we got a military to make sure, you know, I'm like, wow, I'm not feeling any better. So what you're doing is all of the abuses that America is suffering at the R's and D's, it doesn't make any difference. You know, It doesn't matter and I don't care. But to make them pay for lying, to pay for lying during the campaign, the rhetoric that they use, to be not forthright with what they're doing. And then, oh, by the way, Trump family and sons make a boatload of money off of it. And now I got a $5 ,000 bribe promised me. Donna and I, that's $10 ,000. You vote for Republicans, pinky swear, we're going to get it. We'll skate it through. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need Republicans. And that's $1 .whatever trillion to 200 and whatever million people, 200 million people plus of adults that get this. It's $1 .2, $1 .3 trillion they're going to add to the debt. They're just bribing us. It's so unseemly. and the fact that you took this to them and said, look, man, we got a few asks here. And then they lied to you. They don't do it. And then payback. So I'm supportive of what you're doing and your AI skills in creating the ads. You know, this is one thing I'm going, we didn't have that in the 90s. We were struggling to find graphic artists that could do simple things. I'm going to guys from high school, you know, graphic artists to do some of our art. animation was you know not even a thing no online video no streaming no instant communication no telegram signal whatever now the technology as much as they want to use ai to slap us around and they got an individual narrative for every one of the eight billion people on the planet to try and convince you of whatever the heck it is that they're doing that is a double -edged sword and you You have embraced it and going to be doing some ass whipping. Peace. I'm on your side, man. Let's do it. Yeah, I appreciate that. That's been, I mean, I've been working like 18 hours a day trying to get all this stuff together because this PAC was kind of a last minute thing. But I literally have, as we're doing this podcast, I have four computers that are doing nothing but creating ads and music videos. And they're running 24 -7. And, you know, I didn't realize I'd be using it for this. I started using it to raise awareness around crypto prisoners and around technocracy. But boy, what an application. Because we now have, I think, 70 ads that are live in eight states. And every state has a theme song, which I played at the introduction here. But I've got more songs coming. And I really enjoy doing it. And, you know, and part of it is just figuring out, you know, people aren't necessarily going to listen to the whole song, but then, you know, figuring out the clips and then and doing the targeting. It's actually been it's been fun. And I actually think it's going to be turn out to be very, very effective. I actually, as I stood up there, you know, we're going to cost the GOP the Senate. We're going to hold Trump accountable. Hopefully this will lead to maybe stopping the war because that the Senate was 50 to 49. I mean, they actually could have stopped it. but the Republicans wanted to keep it going. Lower prices and expose corruption. And I'm going to tell you this. I actually think next year, most of next year is going to be about impeachment hearings. And it's going to be about the corruption within the Trump administration because the Dems, I'll give them this. They don't mess around on this stuff. The Republicans talk about doing stuff like this and then they don't do anything about it. Next year, you're going to learn about world liberty financial. You're going to learn about what was going on with the technocratic reconstruction of Gaza and USD one. I mean, that is that mark my words this time next year. These are going to be mainstream topics. Things that you and I have been talking about for years is now going to be mainstream news because it's going to be a part of these impeachment hearings. And and it should be. This should happen because it is it's actually unprecedented corruption. I mean, you mentioned it doing this Trump report. I mean, how do you do the Trump report and not come away with, man, like there's no, the idea that Watergate was a scandal is almost something that's unfathomable at this point. So. Let me tell you how the Trump report started. It was when he came down the escalator in 2015. A good friend of mine, a doctor here in the Scottsdale area. area. He was a big Trump fan and he came to me and he, his father and uncle were in the high rise steel business in Philadelphia. And he's originally from Philadelphia. So it was kind of, you know, I don't know if you got Christmas cards from the same contractors or whatever is Trump kind of deal. He, he understood that. And he was interested in him, his persona, whatever he read the art of the deal. And of course, you know, know, he paid attention to whatever he's going, Ernie, he's going to win. This is, I don't think people understand what's going on. Now, for the first part of the 16 campaign, he was, oh, I'm not committed, you know, I'm not, but he went full, you know, trumped hard, man. I mean, it was, so he asked, he goes, I want to do a show on this to have people understand what's coming. And I go, absolutely. I can say, you're still voting a bunch of times, you know, I just, we're going to have some fun. Let's do it. Now, what happened was as time went on and all the broken promise, all the crap and the war and so on, finally, this last election, he just took his ballot and put it in his office shredder. He's just, I'm done. I win. It took me a decade, but you know, so in doing the show, you highlight, so I am so Trump administration up on everything. And it has been they, them, those. You always go to, you know, us conspiracy nut, who are they? And I'll tell you who they are. There are those that just want to be left alone and those that just won't leave you alone. That's who they, them, those are. So I just categorize them all, you know, alien Klingons or, you know, freaking, you know, the Chinese, right? Whatever. I just, are you going to leave me alone or not? Well, you just get to go in one or two categories. You leave me alone or you're not. Well, the Trump administration advocating for a whole bunch more of not leaving me alone and certainly going into debt and a war. I would say I see a mushroom cloud, nuclear war, comply no more. Try to get another freaking compliance, license, tax, anything for me. You know, we started nuclear. You fail. You're done. You know, whatever. Yeah, but I don't care. Mushroom cloud. Done. Done, done, done, done, done. done. So what you're doing is, you know, all of these guys, R's and D's are in on this. This is a they, them, those thing. It's not a Republican, Democrat, blue, red, whatever they say they're going to vote. Whenever it comes down to it, you can count on the Federal Reserve being there. You can count on the IRS being there. You can count on the military industrial complex being in there. You can count on big pharma poisoning us. You can count on, count on, and count on. No matter who you vote for, government wins. And what you're doing is making sure that there's some payback for them in a creative way that we've had a lot of experience here in Arizona. We have always, but it wasn't intentional. You know, it wasn't like we wanted to cost this one or that one. One of them, my senior editor, Pal Gamble, the microbiologist that he He worked at the Arizona Department of Health as a scientist. And after 9 -11, he was exposed to all the gazillion dollars of money of equipment and lab and check that powder stuff. He had no place to put it. He took me down to the Arizona, the building and big, wide hallway, just full of plastic wrapped equipment that they couldn't even use. They were just slinging money everywhere. So he finally left, became my senior editor of Freedom's Phoenix, ran for Congress as a libertarian in the race for Congress with Kyrsten Sinema. This is where Kyrsten Sinema came from. She was a state legislator. She got a long story. I've known her for a long time. Very smart woman, very socialist. list. What happened was it was her, a woman, white woman, but bi, identified as bisexual. So, you know, she got, you know, some cred with the whatever groups there. The Republican was a black, I think he was mayor of Paradise Valley here. And a lot of issues are, you know, circling around between it. You got a black man and a, you know, bi woman and, you know, well, here comes the libertarian he goes up in the debates and every time opening statement answering questions closing statement you're still voting what's the difference he got like seven to eight percent well it was many times the difference between them and the democrat won so of course the democrats love on some libertarians while the republicans are doing everything they can to keep us off the the ballot, making it more unconstitutional as hell. I understand election law. I challenged 44 election laws all the way in the Ninth Circuit. I got a bunch of Ernie laws. But the problem was, is that, you know, they change it a little bit, tweak it, do the same thing, same result, same. Arizona has, for some reason, been a nail that sticks up out of the 50 the states nails in the two by four. So what do they do? Here comes the hammer, bam. You know, we got to nail that down. So we have challenged them lawsuits. I've had like three lawsuits, Arizona Supreme Court, you know, a bunch of superior court, all of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, you know, oral argument for the Ninth Circuit. I get it. But I didn't get any of the advancement that people would think from the process or them going, oh, gee, you just had to explain this constitution thing to us. It's all good. You win. That was not where I got the movement. It's what you're doing. It was general public opinion. It was educating people. It was demonstrating resistance is not futile. If you do that and you're principled and you make it very very clear why you're doing what you're doing. They have to answer to us. This is why Trump went to the Libertarian Party and goes, I'm going to free Ross Ulbricht and vote for me. What else did he say that libertarians, nobody remembers, nobody cares. He just made a deal. Well, the Trump administration lied to you. That was their biggest mistake. So tell me about some of the races. Let's talk about them. Yeah. Let me jump into that. I've got a lot lot of stuff. I'll probably go through some of this quickly, but I want to highlight because there are three themes that resonate across all eight states. And then there are specific issues for each state. But based on all the information, obviously, the price of oil is a huge issue across the country. There's no hiding from it. And remember what Trump said. Trump said, I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months. That was his statement. So I, cause I see a lot of people that, you know, I'll, I'll do a post. It's like, Hey, I just paid 445 a gallon for gas. You know, how much did you pay? And then the response back will be, well, but it was $5 under Biden or whatever. It's like he promised they would cut electricity prices in half within 12 months. He didn't. He said we would never be in any new wars in the Middle East. That was a lie. And then the Republicans have continued to vote to keep us in that war. Gaff is up a dollar and 23 cents per year. He promised to drain the swamp. And then he brought in Howard Lutnick, who I truly believe is the embodiment, the mascot of the swamp. I don't think there's a you know, maybe Epstein is the only one that would be at a higher level than that. I actually heard, I was listening to a podcast with Jimmy Dore and Tucker Carlson yesterday, and they were finally talking about the fact that, you know, they think that Lutnick is kind of behind whatever Trump's, the diversion of Trump from whatever he said he was going to do to what he's doing. He actually did some of the stuff that he said he was going to do the first term. Not much of it, but some. But he's completely off the reservation. And so Lutnick is a horrible player involved with Tether and the tariffs. I mean, everywhere you go, even the regulation of AI is under his domain. It's amazing how much power this guy has. has. So our mission is to fund the margin that costs the GOP the Senate. This is the goal. And what started out as one race, because at one point I was a candidate and my idea was, hey, I'll do this in New Hampshire. Because at the time, the prediction markets were 50 -50, New Hampshire was going to be a toss -up state. And then they lied to me. I basically said, said, listen, you know, if you actually, the whole point of my race was to hold them accountable. And my, my position was one of two ways. Either you can actually do some of the things that you said you were going to do before I put my name on the ballot. Or if you continue to not do any of the things that you said you were going to do, we're certainly not going to elect you again. And then I'll put my name on the ballot and there's a good chance that'll cost you the seat. and that seat could cost you control of the Senate. And long story short, they said they were going to do something. They didn't. They lied. I had a plan B, and the plan B was originally, I was really just like, okay, well, I know there's this Constitution Party candidate, Ed Laplante, who's a great guy, and the Constitution Party is completely aligned. In fact, I was actually, I didn't think he was going to get ballot access. I didn't know that he was going to be on the ballot, and I kind of felt bad because I knew that my being in the race would make it really difficult for him to get 4%. And his goal is to get 4 % because if he gets 4 % for the Constitution Party, they'll have ballot access in 2028. So this turns out to be great. I'm like, okay, well, hey, I can just support. I'll put together a super PAC. I've run a super PAC before, and we'll support Ed. And then as I started looking at what's going on across the country, there's just a massive shift now. And all of these states that no one ever thought would be in play, Texas, Iowa, Kansas. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to take the super PAC. And if there's a good third party candidate who will likely draw significantly more votes from the Republican party than the Democrat party, then I'll support those. So now we're in eight races, and our candidate is currently the margin in five out of the eight states. Oh, you know what? One thing that I want to make sure the audience knows that you didn't explain is that you did get your signatures. You were standing at the Secretary of State right here. Now, they tried to stop you, and you filed suit and won, them trying to keep you off the ballot. Damn it. He's got the signatures. He's got a legal judgment that he gets to file, and you're standing there kind of leaning to the counter, oh, we'll put these petitions down right up to the last minute. Nope, nope, nope. Well, if you do that, then, you know, God, and they lied. I'm so glad that you're making them pay. You gave them an opportunity. Now you're going to make them pay. And you know, we were talking that day about what was going on because I thought something was supposed to happen that day. My wife and I actually went to the Secretary of State's office because we had just won the lawsuit for them to accept my declaration of candidacy. So we actually had a wagon and we took all of the petitions that we had, we had an excess, like almost a thousand more signatures than we needed, validated. And we took our little wagon, we went to the Secretary of State's office just to make sure they would be willing to accept? Were they going to honor the court's decision? Because just because we won in court doesn't mean there's going to be some other last minute theatrics. So we go in around one o 'clock and then they were ready for us. They were actually polite. They were fully prepared to accept my declaration of intent and fully prepared to accept the petitions. So then my wife and I went across the street to a restaurant and basically, you know, for for four hours behind the scenes, I'm texting, trying to get some stuff done. And in the end, you know, I, I, I was, I was, I was told, I wouldn't say I was told, but people suggested that I trust a promise regarding one of the demands. And of course I didn't think they were going to honor it at the time, but I knew I had the plan B, but yeah, no, we, we, we, we did so much work to be able to get on the ballot. And it, by the way, it was great leverage because at that moment in time, the weekend before I was to file was the one and only time that John Easton Nunu was ahead in the poll. There was just this one blip of a poll where he was up by three, which if I were on the ballot, we would wipe that out. And so like at the moment that all of this was going on, this was a real deal that the whole Senate could have hinged on this. Now, as we'll talk about tonight, night, New Hampshire is really not even in play. There's some phenomenal dynamics today in the state of New Hampshire. I don't know if you've followed this, but there are two big developments in New Hampshire, which we'll get to. The thing I have on the screen right now is that in terms of the proof point for this model, I've already done this. I did this in 2016. And I did this not just me running for US Senate. I actually recruited a slate of candidates. In fact, they were were libertarians who I convinced to run as independents. And we were the margin in all three of those races. You can see it on the screen. I got 17 ,700 votes. The margin was 1 ,000. In one of the congressional districts, the guy got 34 ,735 votes. The margin was 4 ,900. And then the other district, it was 17 ,000 votes versus a margin of 15 ,522. So we took out all All three. And as a result, New Hampshire didn't send a Republican to Congress for like the first time since 1854. And they haven't sent one since. This is the power of this model. I'm using this this third party margin for these races. Now, I want to say that there was an article in Semafor yesterday. yesterday. And the thing about this is that, I mean, this is a publication that is really, I mean, the guy, Burgess Everett, is considered one of the elite reporters covering Congress. He's like the guy covering the Senate. And what's interesting is he covered me in 2016 when he was at Politico. So he already knew me. And I remember when he talked to me 10 years ago, I said, listen, I'm going to run as an independent. I'm going to cost Kelly at the seat. And of course, I think he was skeptical at the time, just like everyone was. Everybody told me it wouldn't work in 2016. So he actually wrote this article that was the front page of Semafor, why one spoiler candidate is now trying to replicate his work nationwide. And he does understand what we're doing here. I mean, he expressed some skepticism in the article, but he did reach out to the White House and he reached out to to top political operatives fundraising for the Republicans in the Senate. No one wanted to comment. No comment. No comment. His comment was, well, they don't seem particularly worried about it, but then no comment, which means they're worried about it. And in fact, somebody did go on the record and said, well, we're not worried about what he's going to do nationwide, but we're still worried about what he's going to do in New Hampshire. So the bottom line is this is now, I know, I can assure you, the top people in the administration know what's going on here. So the question is, you know, what are they going to take it seriously? What are they going to do about it? We'll see that next. But some other quotes in that article were, you know, you called a spoiler campaign. I call it holding Republicans accountable. And by the way, I'm not, you know, the interesting thing about this is most super PACs are shady. Nobody knows anything about super PACs. You go to a super PAC website, you don't know who's behind it or whatever. I'm kind of like, this is like an open source super PAC. I've got a website you can see all the stuff we're doing I'm giving you all the rationale I'm telling you exactly why I'm doing it and uh and the thing is I actually think this election cycle people are so pissed off at Trump that I actually think they're looking if they can place a vote specifically to send a message they're willing to do it in fact many of them are willing to actually vote them which I'll get to this is actually happening in New Hampshire and And what I'm saying is, whoa, whoa, whoa, look, you're going to regret that. I don't like, you know, the Dem here, Chris Pappas. He's I've been against him in a couple of different elections. I would recommend you put your vote towards Ed Laplante because Ed represents likely what you actually would like to see in government. He represents the direction you'd like to see the Republicans go in. Yeah, I want to make a point about that. They always say you're wasting your vote and all that kind of stuff. we made it very clear. We went all Aaron day on them for decades that a vote for libertarian and the freedom oriented rhetoric that we would have. And we're all in line. I mean, you know, Arizona is we're not just libertarian. We're Arizona libertarian kind of thing. Well, what happened is that was a block of vote. They, they had to get it. Hell Trump went to the libertarian party. I mean, you know, he's looking for a block of vote. Well, Well, what happened was in 96, one of my best friends was running for Congress. We were all running together. I was running for Congress, whatever. He ran against, the Republican was a sportscaster here on the NBC affiliate. So he, you know, had name recognition. He was popular. Well, he was running against the state chair of the Democratic Party. party. So both of them, it was the most expensive congressional race up to that time. It was, I don't know, 30 to 80 million. That was some ridiculous amount of money. Well, there was a libertarian, my friend, Bob Anderson. He gets up there, you know, he represented, you know, kind of rural Arizona, freedom oriented, yada, yada, yada. Well, because of a lot of our activism, Activism, lawsuits, and, you know, League of Women Voters, you know, go out. Well, we're a bipartisan organization. Well, you're violating your 501. So you can't be bipartisan. You got to be nonpartisan. You're supporting this two party. I mean, what the hell? So all of our activism and so on, finally, we'll let the libertarians in because this is what they thought. These libertarians are going to come off crazy and then everybody will know. That's not what happened. All of a sudden, they're gubernatorial candidates. I ran for secretary of state, you know, later Congress, U .S. Senate against McCain. All of you, they're going, wow, what they said. So you start getting endorsements from, you know, schools and college papers and that kind of stuff. But of course, the mainstream, you know, hell no. Well, what happened was he gets up and they were going on about the same thing they do now, the deficit. You know, Social Security is going to run out of money, yada, yada, yada. And he goes, we need to, the Democrats, we need to build a firewall around Social Security. Bob gets up and he goes, I want to build a firewall around my wallet. How about we do that? And it's always they got a plan and this guy's plan is better than that plan. The Libertarians were like, our plan is that you get to have your own plan. How about that? That was the whole point. This resonated. The difference in that first rate, it was Anderson, Hayworth, Owens, one and two. And I think it might have been a third one. In 96, he was like 10 times the difference between the two. The Republican barely squeaked by. The entire campaign, he would say, my liberal opponent, my liberal opponent, my liberal opponent, of course, referring to the Democrat, not even mentioned in libertarian candidate or philosophy. He barely squeaked by. Well, then, and it took weeks. There was a lot of shenanigans went on. You know, it took a while before and he's declared winner. Two years later, the same three candidates ran the Republican arms around. I went to church with him. I knew the guy. He goes, Ernie, if you keep doing this, the Democrat will win. And I'm going, you're confusing me with someone who thinks there's a difference. Oh, he went all purple, purple gorilla on that one. But the thing is, is that in that next campaign in 98, Oh, my bestest buddy, libertarian arm around. We're on the same page. You know they're full of crap. They're never going to do it. But the mindset totally changed in the electorate. The whole, the issues that we were advocating for, the things that we wanted became part of their platform. form. Same thing happened with the Ron Paul campaign. The reason I was so behind the Ron Paul campaign, that Levolution logo came from my campaign in 06 running for Secretary of State. I knew how popular it was, and I knew that I didn't have to make excuses for Ron. Ron, freedom guy, head down plow, bring attention to him. Our goal was how long could we keep him up up on that podium. That was it. Oh, we get to do it in 12 too? All right, we'll do that. So this, what you're doing has way more history, way more power than I think people realize. And it is not just that you're supporting the alternative candidate to cost them the election. It's why, because you are very clear in what you stand for, that you are libertarian, that you are our voluntarist, leave me alone, whatever freaking, their promises don't mean anything. And they have a totally abandoned the constitution hell before the ink dried on it. So this argument now between Hamilton and Jefferson, they go, Oh, we're going to be a Hamilton. Well, Hamilton was a big government guy. You know, we're like this Jefferson thing down to the individual. So I just want the audience to understand there is so much more power behind what Aaron is doing than I think people realize. We've experienced it here in Arizona. Now, you know, you leave for a little while or stop or go on the Love Bus Liberty Tour or start focusing national on, you know, the Ron Paul revolution and everything. All of a sudden, here come the liberals and the Dems and the election fraud. And all of a sudden, Arizona starts to shift. But it's not that way in the minds of the people. And if there were accurate elections and we just top of the story, Freedom Freedom's Phoenix today, freedom'sphoenix .com, Maricopa County gets caught after they did their logistic and accuracy test and so on. Late at night, somebody's got video. They come in, they put a USB into the computer. Oh, I'm so shocked. So if you can get an accurate election and you have the rhetoric that you're advocating for and why you're doing this, it will have an impact. And I think they know it. And they are, I don't know why they lied to you. I don't know who did. I don't know, but they're going to pay. And I want to help. They are going to pay. I don't know either. I would say, but, you know, I know who I've been told that it is, but because I don't know it directly, it could be any of a number. I don't want to defame anyone, but let's just say it's top people. And politics. And, you know, and they, so they know what's going on. It's just surprising that they wouldn't take this seriously. And they probably are regretting it now because even if you look at the deterioration of the polls and Trump's approval just since September the 3rd, which was the date that I was going to put my paperwork in, they're probably at this point desperately clinging on anything that they can do to stop the bleeding. And so I wanted to say that part of what's important about this, because you bring up a good point, this is an important thing to do. And there's a big debate right now where people just say, well, you've got to pick the Republican versus the Democrat. That's the only choice that you have. So vote and then fight afterwards. words and the problem with this but the problem with this is is that demoralizing if you vote if you keep on voting and they do the opposite there's no there's no holding them accountable and they actually run on the basis of um this party dynamic yeah the guy sucks you're we we lied and uh and our guy sucks but