New AI-run super PAC aims to decide the U.S. Senate by backing third-party candidates in four swing states

StarkFreedom names its first race: New Hampshire, where the Constitution Party holds the first statewide ballot line in its history. Three more races announced Thursday, September 24.

Nashua, N.H. · September 22, 2026

StarkFreedom, a new independent expenditure committee run in-house with artificial intelligence, launched today with a plan to decide control of the U.S. Senate by backing third-party candidates in four swing-state races. Its first race is New Hampshire. The remaining three will be named Thursday, September 24.

The committee's stated mission is to hold the GOP accountable and hand the Senate to the Democrats. Accountable for what: the campaign promises Donald Trump ran on and the ruling party has failed to keep. The ledger is specific: the price of gas, new wars in the Middle East, the continuing war on crypto, and a swamp that was never drained, with Howard Lutnick still in it.

Most voters believe they have only two options. StarkFreedom's premise is that the strategic use of a third is the one enforcement mechanism a ruling party actually fears. Its method: back third-party candidates in races where the third-party vote can exceed the final margin, so the seats the ruling party needs run through candidates StarkFreedom funds. In each race, the committee will run an AI-powered online campaign for the candidate it endorses and against the Republican. The structure is party-agnostic. Republicans simply hold power right now.

In New Hampshire, Edmond Laplante was certified on September 2 as the Constitution Party's candidate for U.S. Senate, the first statewide ballot line in the party's New Hampshire history. The race is rated a toss-up by the Cook Political Report (September 15) and by Inside Elections.

A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely New Hampshire voters, conducted September 8-10, put Chris Pappas at 45 percent, John Sununu at 34, Aaron Day at 4, and Laplante at 2, with 9 percent undecided. Under New Hampshire law, RSA 652:11, a political organization whose U.S. Senate candidate receives at least 4 percent of the vote becomes a recognized party with its own ballot line in the next election cycle.

"Rasmussen has me at 4 percent in a race I am not even running in, and Ed Laplante at 2. I am asking every one of my supporters to vote Laplante. That is 6 percent. And if Laplante finishes at 4, the Constitution Party earns its own ballot line in New Hampshire for 2028. I have talked to people all across this state who want to run under that banner." Aaron Day, founder, StarkFreedom

The record behind the strategy is specific. In 2016, New Hampshire ran three federal races. Republicans lost all three, and in all three the third-party vote exceeded the final margin: 17,742 votes against a 1,017-vote margin in the U.S. Senate race, 34,735 against 4,904 in the First Congressional District, and 17,088 against 15,522 in the Second. The 2016 result gave New Hampshire its first all-Democratic congressional delegation since the 1850s, and no Republican has won a federal race in the state since 2014.

"In 2016 I was the margin myself: 17,742 votes in a Senate race decided by 1,017. This year I beat the state in federal court in 76 days, without a lawyer, using AI. Now the same tools run a super PAC. Republicans lose the Senate through the races we pick, and we picked New Hampshire first." Aaron Day

Day was a candidate for this same seat. He won a preliminary injunction on August 31 in Day v. New Hampshire Secretary of State, No. 1:26-cv-00499-LM-AJ, ordering the state to accept his U.S. Senate declaration, 76 days after filing suit pro se, and held 3,738 supervisor-certified signatures, clearing the statewide requirement and both congressional-district floors. He never filed them.

"I was running for this seat myself. I won the court case and I had the certified signatures in hand. The only reason I did not file them is that I was told some of my demands had been met. That was a lie. So I am not a candidate this year. I am the margin, in four states, with a budget." Aaron Day

StarkFreedom's principals are Day and Eileen Day, who chaired the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, the organization behind The Gold Standard voting guide and the annual Liberty Rating that grades every New Hampshire legislator by name. Eileen Day also served on the board of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, ran for New Hampshire State Senate in 2014, and served as Day's campaign manager.

StarkFreedom's research, polling, legal drafting, and content are produced in-house with artificial intelligence. The committee is organizing to deploy up to $2.5 million in independent expenditures across the four races. It is organizing as an independent expenditure-only committee; its federal registration filing is in preparation.

About Aaron Day

Aaron Day is Chairman and CEO of the Daylight Freedom Foundation and a Brownstone Institute Fellow. He ran for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire as an independent in 2016, receiving 17,742 votes in a race decided by 1,017. In 2026 he won a federal preliminary injunction against the state's ballot-access statute, litigating pro se with AI tools in 76 days. He previously chaired the Free State Project and founded Stark360, a New Hampshire political committee whose 2014 anti-endorsement campaign named nine sitting legislators. Based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

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