A new super PAC called StarkFreedom run by New Hampshire activist Aaron Day has publicly celebrated what it calls victories in eight U.S. Senate, claiming, “we won 8 of 11. Won means the Republican lost.” StarkFreedom endorsed Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. of Petersburg in Alaska’s Senate race, intentionally hoping to draw votes away from the incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan. StarkFreedom’s own materials state their goal without euphemism: back third-party candidates in close races so that the third-party vote exceeds the margin and “costs the GOP the Senate.”
The committee, which registered in early October 2026 with Eileen Day as treasurer, describes itself as an AI-powered independent-expenditure operation. Its press materials and one-page fact sheet claim it organized to deploy up to $2.5 million, produced dozens of AI-generated ads and videos, and helped determine control of the chamber by supporting Libertarian, Constitution Party, and other spoiler candidates in states including New Hampshire, Texas, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, South Carolina, Minnesota, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Alaska.
“Democrat Mary Peltola leads Dan S. Sullivan, a Republican, 102,701 to 102,075 in unofficial first-choice counts. That is 626 votes. Our candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. of Petersburg, has 3,583 votes,” stated founder Aaron Day.
StarkFreedom’s slogan, repeated across its website, releases, and fact sheet, is “We fund the margin. It costs the GOP the Senate.” The group states it is not primarily trying to elect the third-party candidates it backs. Instead, it runs online campaigns for those candidates and against the Republican in races where third-party support can decide the outcome. Day has pointed to his own 2016 independent Senate run in New Hampshire and related third-party activity that year as the model; media at the time noted the spoiler potential against then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte.
The post-election fact sheet defines a “win” for the PAC as the Republican losing the seat. It lists results (unofficial early counts as of November 4) claiming success in eight races, with the third-party candidates it supported typically receiving 1–3 percent. In Alaska, it endorsed Petersburg Dan.
Democrats have flipped seats in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maine.
The gap between the PAC’s language and its FEC filings is large. Early announcements and coverage referred to a $2.5 million effort. Public summaries through mid-October 2026 show roughly $318 raised and under $200 in disbursements, with no independent expenditures then reported. Subsequent 24-hour notices list very small estimated independent expenditures—often single-digit or low double-digit dollar amounts—for online ads on X and Meta platforms, some described as estimates, unbilled, or paid by Day’s personal card and treated as debt to the committee.
Super PAC reporting can lag, and later filings may show additional activity. As of the available data, however, the documented financial footprint does not match the scale suggested by the press kit and releases. The “45 AI-made ads” and related content appear to have been low-cost digital placements rather than a multimillion-dollar campaign.
Aaron Day has a documented history of third-party and anti-establishment activity in New Hampshire, including prior work with Stark360 and liberty-aligned groups. That record is real. What is new is the scale of the claim—that a single AI-driven PAC, with reported spending in the low hundreds or low thousands rather than millions, meaningfully decided Senate control—and the open framing that success means Republicans lose.
Super PACs can spend unlimited sums as long as they do not coordinate with candidates. However, StarkFreedom goes beyond typical PAC behavior by deliberately targeting one party’s voters in order to elect the other party’s candidates. The brazenness of StarkFreedom’s strategy underscores the increasingly prevalent “means justify the ends” strategy to reduce conservative influence in government.
Primary Sources
StarkFreedom PAC official site and fact sheet: starkfreedom.org | fact sheet PDF | press materials
FEC filings and financial data: committee overview
Key press release: PR Newswire, Oct. 14, 2026
