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We're Costing the GOP the US Senate. · The Aaron Day Show

• welcome back to the Aaron Day Show. It's been a while. It's been actually about a month or a little over a month to the point where I almost forgot how to get this thing set up and configured. In any event, there is so much to go through tonight. The big story is that I'm not on the ballot for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, and I'll explain the details of that. But I have, my wife and I have launched a super PAC, Stark Freedom. If you've known me for a while, you know, I started Stark three sixty pack in twenty fourteen and now we are starting another pack raising up to two and a half million dollars to support third party candidates in six toss up states. and I'll get into the rationale behind this. It has been a long week, and I didn't want to come on and do the podcast in part because I wasn't in a position to talk about what was going on at the time, and I was still trying to figure out what was going on. I mean, in short, we thought that, as you'll recall, when I ran, the whole premise of the campaign was is that you can use a third party as leverage to hold the party in power accountable. And I listed off four demands, and I was told that one of those demands was going to be met more or less immediately if I didn't put my name forward on the ballot, and I was lied to. Now, of course, this shouldn't be surprising given the administration and given all the people who are involved in this. And so nevertheless, I had a backup plan and I'll get into that detail in a minute. I do want to go through those because it has been Such a long period of time. I wanted to go through some of the other non-election, non-U.S. Senate based, well, I guess not completely U.S. Senate based, but other activities that have occurred. The first of which is that the Clarity Act is dead. And by the way, that has nothing to do with me and that has nothing to do with that being one of my four demands. That happened due to a combination of greed and incompetence. And in fact, actually, I just retweeted somebody today saying, I thought this was a great quote. Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, which I think is a great, great quote. I'm going to repeat that and use that. But nevertheless, as I've been saying, the Clarity Act was the largest surveillance bill ever proposed in the U.S. I mean, we're talking about all of your... crypto transactions, and starting with crypto, moving to everything that you own will be tokenized. Your house, stocks, bonds, everything will be tokenized and would be subject to these same rules. And those rules were real-time tracking of all your financial transactions, holding that information for five years, sharing it with multiple departments of the federal government, sharing it with foreign central banks. The Patriot Act actually extended into the Clarity Act. It made it so that stable coins could be... Well, there was the song at the beginning. You could seize, freeze, or burn, or exchange, force you to exchange your stable coins. It truly was... Klaus Schwab's dream was the Clarity Act. And it was disgusting to watch people in crypto who are supposed to be pro-liberty promoting this bill. And by the way, I couldn't get any of these people to debate me or talk about this. I saw constantly somehow this got wrapped up into being a pro-crypto bill. And somehow people chose not to read the bill or even use AI to analyze the bill. It's just because it had... crypto in the description, people thought, oh, this must be a good thing. I think these are the same people that didn't like the Patriot Act and don't like the Bank Secrecy Act, but somehow were compelled to support the Clarity Act. So this is a huge piece of news, good news. But it does highlight to me why I talk a lot over the last few years about how important it is to exit and build. and to build parallel systems. And I tried to completely get out of politics until I found that the people that are most effective in the entire world at promoting parallel solutions were the ones being targeted by the federal government and being thrown into cages. And it didn't matter whether it was the Biden administration it continues to this day under the trump administration so um so i've really come to the conclusion that we need to not just do exit and build we need to expose obstruct exit and build and related to this is the idea that remember it's republicans that push this you're seeing a lot of rhetoric now like that you know the dems should be punished for this no actually the republicans should be punished for promoting this bill and What the conclusion I've come to is a lot of people say, well, Aaron, you're supporting third party candidates. Won't that help the Dems? Well, I certainly don't like the Dems. But what I realized is what we really need is gridlock, because what happens when you have single party rule is the most disastrous of all, whether it's Republicans or Democrats. It doesn't matter if you go back and you look at all of the records. of when you've had single party rule. This is when spending gets out of control. This is when regulation gets out of control. Military spending expands. It doesn't matter if it's Republican or Democrat. So the best shot that we have at being able to exit and build is gridlock. So we know what I'm going to talk about tonight. with the super PAC is something that will apply to whichever party's in power. This is a strategic tool that can be used across the country at different levels of government. I'm focusing on the US Senate this time around, but this concept and this approach could be applied to state government as well, or even local government, because we have a largely divided society. It's a manufactured division. Again, when you boil it down, there's actually not much difference between Republicans and Democrats in practice. It's only the rhetoric that is different so in this particular um situation uh yeah i see somebody commenting on here you know so in this particular situation uh we're targeting republicans because the republicans are in power and it's the republicans who have failed to do what they said they were going to do and not only did they fail what they said they were going to do then they then told me they were going to do one of the things that they previously said they were going to do that they didn't and then they rug pulled me on it this is so i mean it's not like i'm shocked that this happened I'm not shocked at all. And at some point, the truth of everything that went on with this process will come out, but it won't be until after the election. I'm going to focus on what we need to do there. But this is a fascinating, fascinating story about the political process. So that's the Clarity Act. I want to say that last night, if you're not following enemies of the state, I encourage you to do so. As you know, I've been part of this. enemies of the state. Um, it's at E O T S underscore freedom. I'll put that in the chat as well. This is a great group of, uh, of folks that are dedicated to raising awareness about political prisoners. And they've held big events at the last two libertarian conventions, but have just launched a podcast. And this was the second episode. The first episode had Ammon Bundy and Dexter Taylor. And I encourage you to watch that. And then last night, I aired a podcast that I had done where I was the host and we had Jason Basler from the Free State, excuse me, Free Thought Project. We had Barrett Brown, who if you're not familiar with Barrett Brown, I encourage you to follow his work. This guy was one of the OGs involved. He was kind of like the PR front for the group Anonymous back in the day when it wasn't hijacked and ended up being sentenced to over a hundred years in prison, ended up getting pardoned. But he is a top-notch investigative journalist who, by the way, Palantir was on his radar a full decade before it was on everybody else's. Palantir and in part his incarceration I think is tied to some of the actions of Palantir and then we also had Mark Passio on who I've had on the show a couple of times as well so I encourage you to check out that episode and then and then as I said I you know I've really switched my thinking and you'll see over the next I'll be I'll be doing the podcast regularly now that I'm officially not a candidate. And so I'll be back to once a week, Thursday at six PM. But I gave a talk in Amsterdam and this was right after the filing. It was like September the fourth or fifth. I was in Amsterdam and I gave a speech and that speech was expose, obstruct, exit and build. And I kind of laid out the different tools that we have at our disposal. And I will say just through this process that I've been through in the last ninety days or so with winning the court case using AI, that is a major weapon that we have. And I will be working next year to make those tools available to other people so that we can get more people across the country using filing lawsuits or defending themselves pro se and leveling the playing field. I think this is a huge tool. in the category of obstruct. And I think that what I'm going to announce tonight with the super PAC is another one, the ability to use third parties strategically. And so, of course, the other topic, and Jason Basler talked about that in the podcast as well, is that there's quite a bit of a public debate now about flock cameras. And Florida, I guess, has banned these from state roads, which is good progress. To me, though, what the flock camera kind of uprising represents to me is a crack in the window for us to be able to... to be able to explain what technocracy is, because that's the whole reason I've been doing what I've been doing is to warn people about technocracy, which is a political ideology that basically replaces, the constitution replaces the rule of law with AI and experts basically controlling things from the top down. And once you start to learn about, well, who's behind flock cameras, then you're going to start to learn about broader AI surveillance, digital currencies, tokenization of assets. And so this is good news. I just see Justin O'Donnell wrote, I just took the Manchester Police Department for four K using AI to write my demand letter. So yeah, great. That's another great example. And I've talked to many people. And in fact, I'm helping people use my system on a selective basis because it's not I built it specifically for the combination of New Hampshire state law and then federal election law. So it's not like something anybody can just pop into and use in any jurisdiction for any case. But I am on a case-by-case basis expanding this out. And again, this changes the dynamic entirely. No longer are people completely beholden to the state or technocratic corporate interests because you can actually fight back from a legal perspective. And of course, the Epstein files are not done. Thomas Massey has been doing incredible work. He put forward a second discharge position and there could be a House vote on this. In fact, I believe the House went on recess specifically not to take this up, but they're going to be back and there may be a vote on this. in November. Can you imagine what's in those remaining Epstein files? I mean, as you know, I downloaded all of the Epstein files. I put them on Technocracy Atlas. I've poured through all of them. And there are other sites that are much better with kind of browsers for this. But the information that's already in there is damning enough. I mean, you can truly trace and understand how power works and how money actually works in the world looking through just the Epstein files that we have. I can only imagine what is in the rest of the material. So now I'm going to switch to the main topic for this evening, which is formation of stark freedom pack and you can learn more about it at starkfreedom.org but you know specifically um you know again what i said when i was running for us senate is because it was looking at the time like it was a fifty fifty split for control of the u.s senate and i knew new hampshire would come down to being a battleground state and i had previous experience successfully running and changing the outcome as an independent And so I said, well, look, we'll use this race to try to get Trump to come to the table and do some of the things he said he was going to do, like end the war on crypto and no new wars and drain the swamp and so forth. And so... now what's going to happen is we're going to instead of me working on one race as the candidate we're going to we formed a super pack that is going to be able to work on six different races in six states that are all toss-ups and i'm going to tell you tonight who we are endorsing and i'm going to give you some of the dynamics of those races but i want to say this was uh this is a strategy that works and and people know that it works And they hate it. I mean, I can't tell you, you know, I think the state trying to keep me off of the ballot was a lot more about it because it was me and what I was doing and had nothing to do with the law. The law was actually pretty clear cut on this as the federal court ruled in my favor overwhelmingly. But they tried multiple times using multiple arguments to keep me off the ballot. And it's because they know what I did in twenty sixteen. But I will tell you, so, you know, there are a lot of people that, because I haven't said anything. I mean, actually, I think yesterday was the first time I actually tweeted about what was going on. And people have been asking, are you okay? What happened? Some people thought I didn't collect enough signatures or whatever. And so I will tell you, I mean, we put in, I put two hundred hours in just on the lawsuit. And then my wife headed up the coordination of getting the signatures to the hundred and whatever, forty four towns or whatever it was that we had to coordinate. There was a massive amount of work and and volunteers across the state that were helping to get these signatures. Getting these signatures is a very difficult thing you have to get. over three thousand fifteen hundred in each congressional district but then they've changed the rules since the last election so so then if you i guess haven't voted for in you know five years or so you might they might take you off the registered voter list and so these have to be actual registered voters and so there's just all this work to do And, you know, New Hampshire is a small state and you don't find huge gatherings. I mean, I've talked to people in New Jersey and in other states where they have to collect more signatures. But at the same time, there may be events where there are fifty, sixty thousand people. And that just doesn't happen here. So this took months, the amount of effort to to get to this point. So we're, you know, so I'm there with my wife and, you know, the day of. you know, I was like, or the day before or whatever, a couple of days leading up to it, you know, I was told, oh, you know, the administration is taking this very seriously following. In fact, the lawsuit, we actually just got the judgment like one day before the filing period or two days before the filing period is when the judge finally signed off that I could be on the ballot. And I know, um, I got caught wind from a variety of different sources that this was being tracked by GOP operatives very closely. This race did in fact have the leverage that we thought it did. And so, so, you know, I was told that, that some of the demands were going to be met and that, you know, initially these were going to be met before I actually had to drop out of the race, because I had even said when I got involved in this, that, you know, uh, For my demands to be met, the demands would actually have to be met before I just put the pause on submitting my signature. This was something, if you go back and listen to it, was always part of the deal. And so I was told something was going to happen. And there's a lot of pressure on me to not put my name on the ballot and so forth and that this was actually going to happen. Did I believe it? No, I didn't believe it at all. And I was very... direct um with everybody involved in saying that uh i you know this is not how you deal with people like this we know how the trump administration has behaved they've gone back on their word on pretty much every major policy initiative but there was something that happened that i realized you know just a week you know a week or so or actually it was only a few days before um I was going to turn in my petitions that there was another third party candidate, Ed LaPlante of the Constitution Party, who also had all the signatures and he was officially put on the ballot. So I realized I took the chance of saying, well, they're probably going to screw me over But it really doesn't matter because this entire situation was never about me as a candidate. It was about using a third party as leverage. In fact, when I did this in twenty sixteen, I wasn't supposed to be the candidate then either. There was a guy named Andrew Hemingway who'd run for governor who said he was going to do it. And we'd collected a thousand signatures to get him on the ballot. And then he pulled out at the last minute, you know, because the Republican Party said, well, if you do this, it'll be a disaster for your future career in Republican politics, so on and so forth. So I didn't do it intentionally. I was kind of it by default. I couldn't recruit anyone else. And prior to twenty sixteen, my role was running organizations like Stark three sixty pack and Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire and where we would recruit and fund candidates. That was always kind of the role that I was going to play. So in this particular instance, though, because I was successful in being the margin in twenty sixteen, I realized, well, hey, this is a people know it will work when I did it the first time. People didn't believe I would do it, and then they didn't believe it would be successful. Because usually when people say they're going to do something like this, it's a hollow threat, and they don't follow through. And I did follow through, and it was successful. And so now I knew if I put my name on the ballot, it would actually be leveraged. And so it was, but I realized that Ed is now on the ballot. So basically, if they screw me over, I knew I was going to be able to do what my plan B is, which is stark leverage. freedom pack which we have just formed so i've endorsed ed and what's actually it's actually beneficial about this is that as a candidate i'm limited as to how much money you can raise there are there are these you know campaign finance laws i think you can raise seven thousand dollars total three thirty five hundred in the primary thirty five hundred in the general election and that's the most you can raise for one person with a super pack you can raise unlimited amounts of money And so actually, in terms of even making an impact on this race, my strategy was going to be, you know, to go negative on Sununu and point out the numerous deficiencies in Sununu. I mean, his backing of TARP, the whole Wall Street bailout, and then, you know, turning that into a, you know, his self-described position as a chair of a finance committee position. for the World Economic Forum. He voted for the Patriot Act. He voted for Real ID. And then he supported the Clarity Act and the Genius Act, even though obviously he's not elected, but he did sign, I believe he signed a pledge or something saying that he would support these things. And so I started to call him Surveillance Sununu because literally he's voted for every major piece of surveillance legislation. So this wasn't one of these situations where I was running and would cost Rand Paul the seat. This guy is the swamp. In fact, the only reason that he's even moderately in contention because he lost last time. He got kicked out. He got voted out of office and then became a lobbyist. And his net worth, you know, went from under a million to thirty five million dollars or something working for Big Pharma and everything else. But he was not popular when he left. He's he's basically drafting off of brand confusion with his brother, Chris, who is recently governor. I mean, this is how bad of a candidate this guy is. And in fact, there were even mix-ups during the campaign in that primary. I think the one debate he had was Scott Brown, but on a couple different occasions, people confused him for Chris. So I wasn't going to shed a tear if Sununu won, because frankly, I don't think Sununu could win anyway. If you understand what I've been saying about technocracy... He is the biggest proponent of technocracy, in fact, if you look at the bills that he signed. And so all of his campaign rhetoric is completely counter to his voting record. So I wasn't concerned about that. And so I was still disappointed about the fact that a deal didn't get done and that their word was not honored. I mean, believe me, that still obviously I'm upset about that, but I'm also not I'm not entirely surprised. And I actually think we're going to have a much bigger effect on the outcome here. Now, so if you haven't heard my story before, I did this in twenty sixteen. I ran as an independent specifically to cost Kelly Ayotte the seat. And there was a very specific reason for this. She was supporting Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which at the time the Republican Party was dead set against. It was an extension of Obamacare, which was something that Republicans used to be united around. And so she actually interfered with our state speaker of the House race. Because she was told, I believe by John H. Sununu, that if New Hampshire didn't pass Obamacare Medicaid expansion, she would lose probably her reelection. And so I won't go into all the details, but I've been heavily involved with political activism, running groups, recruiting candidates, and Medicaid expansion was my big issue that I was pushing. And almost all Republicans were united against this Obamacare Medicaid expansion, but there was this small group in the Senate that pushed it and drove it. And then Kelly Ayotte gets involved to interfere with the speaker's race to get a favorable speaker who would reauthorize Medicaid expansion. If we had the guy, Bill O'Brien, who we were advocating for, then Medicaid expansion wouldn't have been reauthorized. It had already been passed into law, but it had to go up for reauthorization and we could have actually killed it. So she interfered with this. And so my view was, I'm more focused on New Hampshire than D.C., but what I've realized, which some people are still clueless to this fact, which is that New Hampshire does not run from the bottom up. We get a huge percentage, something like thirty three percent of our funding from the federal government. The federal government is taking more and more control over the flow of funds and the regulatory environment in the state of New Hampshire. So I don't care how much work you do. at the grassroots level, at the state level, if you're giving up on real ID, if you're giving up on the Genius Act, where you're basically allowing the dollar to become digital and something that can be programmed, tracked, and censored by the federal government, if you're allowing everything that you own to be tokenized and controlled by the federal government, then it doesn't matter how much freedom you think you're fighting for from the bottom up in the state of New Hampshire. You are, at best, the freest plantation in the slave colony. And so I realized this, A long time ago, actually more, fourteen years ago. But I also realized that the party system is rigged. It's kind of like this primary. I mean, Scott Brown, who I actually opposed in twenty fourteen, I was very favorable towards in the primary this time around. And I actually had a series of conversations with him and he even showed up at a conference. restate project event. And we spoke and had kind of an open, you know, public discussion on this. And, but the machine, you know, kind of pushed Sununu and I could go into all the inside dynamics, but I realized you're not going to win a primary based on how the apparatus is structured. It is heavily tilted for the incumbent or for political dynasties, which we see, I mean, surprise, surprise, as independent as New Hampshire is, we have Shaheen and Sununu yet again at the top of the ticket or, well, winning their respective primaries. And it's very hard to overcome that. It's very hard to overcome the structure of how the party apparatus works, the fundraising works, the influence works. So I said, look, I'll run as an independent. But I didn't just say I'm going to run as an independent. What I actually said was I'm going to recruit an entire slate of candidates for all of the congressional seats, CD one and CD two. And we're going to cost you all of those seats. And I also said in an interview with Truth in Media that not only might this cost her the seat, this might cost Republicans control of the U.S. Senate. And so people say I sat down with the chair of the. New Hampshire GOP at the time, Jennifer Horn. And she said, oh, well, you won't do this. No one's worried about this. I mean, she spent like two hours talking to me, but apparently nobody was actually worried about it. But I did it and it worked. And in fact, not only did I collect the signatures in to get on the ballot, but it's now well documented and heavily documented that My race was the margin of difference. Now, one thing that's important to understand about this is at that point, this was the most expensive U.S. Senate race per capita in the history of the United States. So it wasn't the most expensive in absolute terms, but it was the most expensive per vote. And this was the closest U.S. Senate race that year in the entire country. So Ayotte the incumbent lost by a little over a thousand votes. I got close to eighteen thousand votes. And something you have to understand, there was a libertarian on the ballot as well. And it is well documented that if you knew who my supporters were, they were almost all Republicans. And some of them are involved at a high level in the party today. So it worked. And not only that, But the other two races, CD one and CD two, were the margin of difference for those races as well. And as a result, this was the first time since eighteen fifty four that New Hampshire sent no Republican to Congress. They'll think about that the first time since eighteen fifty four and they haven't sent one since. So my point to you is, is this political leverage? Yes, this is political leverage. And that statement that I just made is everything that you need to know about whether it is political leverage. Now, did it accomplish what I want? Did did they? No, I followed through on a threat. I said, if Kelly Ayotte gets involved in the speaker's race and they reauthorize Obamacare Medicaid expansion, then I will do this. And so she did interfere. They did extend Medicaid expansion, which, by the way, they continue to extend. This was, you know, twenty fifteen, I think, when they reauthorized this. And so here we are over a decade later and it has been the worst ever. It's been a disaster in terms of the expansion of Medicaid. I mean, I was promised at the time by Jeb Bradley and everybody else, oh, it'll never go over this many new people being added. And then with COVID and everything else, I mean, it turns out New Hampshire is incredibly tied to the federal government and all of these funding schemes tied to Medicaid. We really don't have free markets in New Hampshire. And I've written some articles about this. And so it turned out I was right about the necessity to stop it. It turns out I also have technocracyatlas.com, which I have an updated analysis for New Hampshire. I'm going through and doing all the fifty states, but I've done the most rigorous dive in New Hampshire. And healthcare is our worst score from a freedom perspective. We're still ranked well. We're still ranked forty-fifth or forty-sixth, where one is the worst. So we're still doing well, but healthcare is the worst area. And we will never get rid of Medicaid expansion. So we just turned over billions of dollars of control to the federal government. And it was driven by Republicans. The legislation came through Jeb Bradley and Chuck Morse, and it comes through Washington, D.C. I've outlined who the lobbyists were, and it was pushed in part to help Kelly Aott retain her Senate seat. So what I'm saying is this stuff matters. I care a lot about New Hampshire. I've risked a lot to do a lot of these things because I do believe that New Hampshire can be the beacon of liberty for the world, but not if we keep caving to Washington, D.C. And that does seem to be what's happening. People are just like, well, we can't control what Washington, D.C. does. Let's just see what we can do here. It's kind of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. So now... With that as the backdrop of what happened in twenty sixteen today, we have even more leverage because today I don't have the video clip here, but there are a couple of video clips around where there's one with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson saying, you know, hey, if we lose Congress, if we lose the House and the Senate, a lot of you people are going to go to jail. There are going to be a lot of investigations. Steve Bannon also gave a speech. He said he was speaking in front of a large group. He said a lot of you and myself included, we're going to be in prison if the Republicans lose control of Congress. Well, let me tell you something. They deserve to lose Congress based on their track record. And so this is why the Senate is so important. And this Senate race here in New Hampshire is important. But I'll tell you, if you look at the... I mean, as much as I say we're doing this and we can affect this, if I'm looking at the trend line and the prediction markets, it's going to be a route at this point. I mean, at this point, the Democrats are just going to take it anyway. But I do think it'll tighten up a bit, which is why... We're supporting candidates in these six races. And the one thing I want to say is about these candidates, these are candidates that the point of this is to support people who you would actually support, who represent your values. I'm not picking people that don't share my values or principles. People are looking for somebody to vote for. If you're a Republican, you're not going to vote for Chris Pappas. Although I'm actually hearing some hardcore, typical, like I'm talking about conservative Republicans. Hardcore right wing conservative Republicans that are considering voting for Chris Pappas. And I suggest voting for these third party candidates because it is a way for you to indicate what it is that you would like to see from, you know, in this case, if it's the Republican that's the incumbent, that you would like to see them move in this direction. So if you have somebody that represents the Constitution Party in the Constitution, you voting for that person is you know one it's a protest vote against sununu but it also lets you indicate what it is that you would like to see in candidates and so so the idea is hopefully the party gets the signal at some point if they lose and then they adjust but if not then frankly you know we do have a two-party system but it isn't always the same two parties if you look at it historically and at some point things get so bad that one of the parties might disappear. I mean, we have a uniparty, maybe they merge, and then there's a new second party. So this is the concept here. And so I'm going to go through our six endorsements. This is the first announcement that I have made on this. And so I'll tell you who we're supporting and why I did announce Ed LaPlante yesterday. And I encourage you to check him out. And again, I didn't realize... Frankly, if I knew a little bit in advance that he was going to be on the ballot, I wasn't sure. I knew he was potentially running, but I didn't know if he would get the... The signatures, because I tell you, it's really hard to get the signatures. And I want to thank everybody that was involved to get my signatures because they're great at it. This is a team that knows how to do it. They've done it for over a decade. But frankly, if you're coming at this new, it's really hard to navigate where you can go to collect signatures, how you can collect signatures, the whole process of getting them to each of the individual towns. It is... It's an absolute nightmare. And it's a real barrier to being able to have choice. And in particular, when they try to disenfranchise you and take away your constitutional rights like they did in my case, that adds even more drama. I never even campaigned. Because I had to spend all of my time getting on the ballot and suing the state. But I don't regret it. Actually, it's probably that fighting and winning that lawsuit may be the best thing to come out of this entire process. So... So I encourage you to look at Ed LaPlante and to look at the Constitution Party. And chances are, if you follow me and you support me, you also support the Constitution. So it's actually kind of a no-brainer. And I haven't talked to Ed. And I want to say up front, I actually, because I'm running a super PAC, I can't speak with the candidates directly. So I'm just putting that out there in case. If you are a candidate and we've endorsed you and you're surprised by it or whatever, I legally cannot... talk to you about the campaign or coordinate in any way. This is just some of the federal laws surrounding that. Um, so anyway, um, so Ed's on the ballot and, but you know, if you look at these polls, now the polls had tightened to the point where for the first time, the weekend before, uh, the drop dead date to put in the signatures was the first time. And by the way, I think the only time Sununu had the lead in a poll, he was up three. He's been down considerably most of the time. But Rasmussen did a poll on September the eighth and I received four percent in that poll. And I think Ed was at two percent in the poll. And then there were some other names that aren't actually on the ballot. So you can see it, see it here. And so, you know, again, I'm suggesting to everyone that was going to support me, I would I would highly consider you to highly consider. suggest that you consider putting your support towards Ed. And there's another important part about this. If Ed gets four percent or more, then that will give the Constitution Party ballot access. And that was one thing that I was kind of... I did this whole thing kind of last minute, but... Ballot access is a big deal. And I know the Libertarian Party has done it successfully a few times. I think I was the beneficiary of it in in twenty eighteen. But it's it's really hard to get ballot access. So I've spoken with many people across the state. And, you know, there are a lot of people in liberty circles that there it's kind of a. It's an echo chamber and a lot of them hang out with just themselves. But there is a substantial amount of distress and discouragement around both of the main parties. And so I know several people. There are a lot of people that I think would run under the Constitution Party. So this is another reason to get behind Ed and help Ed get to that four percent. It would have been a little disappointing for me to be in the race and then, you know, let's say I got whatever it happened to be, four percent, and Ed got three percent. I mean, it would have been the same conclusion overall in terms of the strategic objective as using the third party, but it wouldn't be good moving forward from the standpoint of having another party with ballot access. And so... So that is our first endorsement. The second endorsement that we have is we are endorsing Ted Brown for U.S. Senate from the state of Texas. And believe it or not, the fact that I'm even sitting here today and saying that Texas is a toss-up state is absolutely shocking. But at the same time, actually, it's not even just this seat. I mean, Texas is kind of moving is turned into a purple state, which ten years ago no one would have imagined. I suspect it has something to do with big tech and these technocratic firms moving there. Because as much as Elon Musk can talk about his recent transition to dark MAGA or whatever, most of the people that work in these big tech companies are left wing. And they're moving out of places like California and they're bringing that ideology to those states, which is actually something that we should think about here in New Hampshire as well. But in this race, so something to understand about Ted is that Ted received two hundred and sixty seven thousand votes, two point four percent. in twenty twenty four. I believe that was Ted. I'll double check that. And so at this point, both the Cook Report and Sabato have this as a toss up race. And the most recent poll was Tallarico forty six Paxton forty excuse me, Tallarico forty seven Paxton forty six Brown three. So this race is in play. So we're happy to support Ted Brown. He is a hardcore libertarian. He's actually true to the ideology. And so that's, again, not a difficult decision to make there. And again, Ted has no idea. Just as you're hearing this for the first time, most of these candidates have not heard any of this information. So that race is in play. And this... so i'm going to tell you so and something interesting happened in my race in which we still don't know who was behind it but somebody paid for four mailers targeted mailers that went to republican voters um likely republican voters and they said something like you know compared me to kelly ayot on the second amendment issue which which i i scored much better than than ai i mean i got the nra support but nra if you if you're really into gun rights nra's kind of a pretty watered down version of this. But they didn't disclose who they were. And so nobody's actually figured out who paid for it. But I do suspect that those mailers did have an impact on the number of votes that I got. Now, in this particular case, a lot of these races that we're looking at, most of these candidates have not raised any substantial money or put any money into it. So our pack might end up being the bulk of the information that gets out there. Now, we're obviously fully disclosing what we're doing and are going to comply with all of the reporting laws with respect to financial disclosure. So this is a big lift. And as I've been analyzing all of the polling in these individual races, the dissatisfaction with Trump is incredibly high. Actually, if you saw my announcement yesterday, we were going to support four candidates. We've actually expanded it to six in part just because of how some of these races have shaped in just a very short period of time. So Ted Brown for U.S. Senate from Texas, that is our endorsement. And then we're supporting David Graham, a libertarian from Kansas. And this is another remarkable situation. Now, there's only one poll out today. that has the Democrat ahead in Kansas. But I mean, it's Kansas. If you were going to say, well, what's a really safe state? I think it's been since the have to go back that far um to find a democrat elected to the u.s senate from kansas so the fact that this race is is in play is is pretty shocking but some of the dynamics with this are and this is um a show of the prediction markets and what's going on there he's the republican has dropped from eighty four cents to seventy seven cents from september the fifth through the sixteenth and in part it's because His former practice was sued by seven hundred patients over medical debt. So I guess this guy sued a whole bunch of his patients and eighty one of them were actually arrested for missing court. So this was a New York Times article published on September the eighth. And so this so this this guy has some headwinds and and Graham has pulled at five percent in this race. So we are happy to support David Graham in that race. And then in Michigan, which is also a highly contested race. We are supporting Tim Long, who is the U.S. Taxpayers Party nominee. And when I look at this, the U.S. Taxpayer Party used to be tied to something that was called the Constitution Party. But in essence, the gist of it is the same concept. His platform is radically limited government and going back to restoration of the Constitution. And so that's a solid candidate there. Some people might say, well, there's a libertarian... in that race and i looked at that and it seemed to be more of a left libertarian so tim seemed to be i think more aligned with kind of you know our our worldview here um so happy to support Tim, and this is a race where I can tell you the guy who is Mike Rogers is running. And Mike Rogers is probably not going to be a very happy guy when he hears about this because Rogers lost in twenty twenty four by point three percent. And it was the libertarian that made all of the difference. And so this is a race where he's down, I think, by much more than that. This isn't even, at this point, even that close of a race. But at this point, I think our support of Tim can go a long way. And the whole point in this is to pick races where we can have a big impact. And I mentioned we're raising up to two and a half million dollars. We don't even need that much money. I never even raised five thousand dollars for either of my campaigns. So I influenced the most expensive U.S. Senate race per capita without any money. Now, I will admit there were some circumstances around my my activism and then some of the high profile stuff that I was involved in legally and so forth that actually probably didn't increased my name ID. But you have to understand, people don't like these mainstream candidates at all. And when you look at the data in these states, there's a massive backlash against Trump. So these candidates will do very well just by, you know, from our perspective, what our strategy is, is yes, to highlight who they are as candidates, but also to go negative on the Republican opponents, which I certainly am already well prepared to do and already started to do with Sununu and as a slam dunk with Sununu. Because again, even if, you know, if I wasn't doing this as, you know, kind of as a strategy to hold the GOP accountable, I still wouldn't be supporting Sununu. because of my focus on technocracy as the key issue. I wouldn't support Sununu under any circumstances. So I know a lot of people have somehow... not looked at his track record, not looked at his voting record, and have managed to buy the propaganda that he puts out about himself. But this is not somebody that represents, I don't know, even establishment GOP values. So anyway, I'll try not to get... I'm going to move on to these other races. I certainly will have plenty of time to talk about Sununu as we go through this. The next endorsement that we have is Bill Redpath. who's running for United States Senate in Ohio. So he's running against appointed Senator John Husted. And this is one of those races where, you know, Ohio... A lot of the shifts, I mean, the political... Story has changed quite a bit. Ohio always used to be as Ohio goes, so goes the rest of the nation. But then again, Texas used to always be solidly red. I think some of the rules here are changing. But if I did an episode on Ohio and technocracy in Ohio. And with Craig. And I encourage you to go back and look at that because that episode and the tweets and everything, it was really eye-opening what's going on in Ohio with respect to data centers and even Epstein's involvement with Les Wexner, which basically Wes Wexner bought a company town, and this is the area where the data centers are being put. And he had appointed Jeffrey Epstein, the president of this company. You can't even make this stuff up. But as you dig through this, Ohio is one of the most technocratic states in the country. And Vivek Ramaswamy is pushing all this and JD Vance and everybody else. And so they have the surveillance state in Ohio that you wouldn't believe in terms of not only flock cameras, but they're implementing a system where they reward people for snitching on your neighbors. You go through this whole thing and it's just mind boggling. And so Trump kind of ran on this, oh, I'm going to bring manufacturing back and all this other stuff. Well, twenty four percent of Ohio Republicans disapprove of his job performance. And it doesn't even look like Vivek is going to win. And so Redpath draws predominantly from Republicans. I mean, it's not even close. So right now, this is a complete toss-up state. And again, Redpath is a strong libertarian. I mean, the libertarians that we're supporting are actually libertarians. I mean, you might have... probably know there's a gigantic civil war in the libertarian party right now where you have the far left and then you actually have these are right technocrats on the other side, but there are still kind of centrist libertarians. And I think these are the people that we're supporting in this particular race. So again, do I like Sherrod Brown? No, I don't. I hate Sherrod Brown. But in this particular situation, it is critical that we send a message that I mean, go back to before the election and what we were told was going to happen. We were told this was going to be the golden age. We were told no new wars in the Middle East. We were told Doge was going to cut two trillion dollars. We were told that we might get rid of the IRS because of tariffs. I mean, really go back because nobody likes to hold people accountable. They get caught up in the fact that everything was not only a lie, it's been an inversion of of what was uh promised and so you know we've got to hold this we have to hold these people accountable we can't just continue to say well you know yeah they're building a digital prison around us and you know we're doing our digital reconstruction project in gaza that the trump family is making money off of but boy think of how bad it would be if the dems were in power I mean, if you look at this stuff, it's bizarre that people get caught up into this. And at some point, I actually think this third party strategy could be a major tool for the entire country. This is a major new way to hold the parties accountable. And it should have been done before the election. In fact, I was told it was going to be done before the election. I was lied to. But nevertheless, I can say, because there are people who say, well, the first time you did this, you didn't get what you wanted. Well, yeah, I used it as a threat. People didn't believe the threat, but then I executed on the threat, and now people took it seriously to the point where... There were a lot of people, high-level people involved in this race. The fact that I was lied to is a separate component. It did get this elevated. Had it been probably negotiated better, we would have had a different outcome, but that's neither here nor there. The next race is Iowa, where we are supporting Thomas Lane, and he is the Libertarian nominee. He is currently the Greene County Attorney. And he's running against Ashley Hinson. So you can go and check out his stuff. I was watching him on YouTube. He's a pretty solid principled guy. And again, he's already the Greene County attorney. And so this is another tight race. Who would have thought Iowa was a tight race? But again, if Kansas and Texas are in play, I guess we're not in Kansas anymore. But what a weird set of events. The idea that we would be supporting races, credible races, and supporting third parties in these states is shocking to me. But there's some big issues going on. There's been an eminent domain for a carbon pipeline in Iowa. And so Cook just moved this to a toss-up in August. And Sabato also just followed last week. So this is real. So Iowa is up there. Now, the thing about these races is, again... You know, New Hampshire is a small state. So, twenty sixteen is the most expensive per capita, but it still wasn't a lot in absolute terms. A lot of these are small states. A lot of these are states in Iowa and Kansas. These are two states where a short amount of money can have a huge difference. Obviously, Texas, Michigan are different. It's going to cost us more to participate in those states. But nevertheless... this is a train wreck right now for Trump. And again, I don't know if there's anything that can be done at this point to stop Trump train wreck from happening. But all I have to say is, I just paid four dollars and fifty cents a gallon for gas. Nobody can afford anything. They can't afford food. They can't afford medical treatment. Nobody can't afford gas. There's no amount of rhetoric that is going to overcome what happens when people look at their checking account and savings account. So I think, and I don't see anything changing that. I mean, if you watch that RNC convention a couple of weeks ago, I mean, he went up there and essentially bribed people with five thousand dollars. He promised people a five thousand dollar tax credit if the Republicans can retain the Congress. And that didn't even move the needle. I mean, I guess in part it's because how many times has he offered bribes? to give people money back, whether it was going to be a doge dividend or whether it was going to be the tariffs and everything else. I guess at this point, nobody believes it because it's just another lie. So this is essentially what we're looking at. This is the slate. And in terms of the mechanics of this, so... So I started Stark Three Sixty. It was my first ever super pack