[2] Barron founded the Freedom party in protest of the Democratic ticket for the 2010 New York gubernatorial election.
Barron stated that excluding white people from the party was not racist, as he believes in a "post racial society."
[1][4] The Party's ticket consisted of Councilman Barron for Governor, Eva Doyle, a Buffalo Criterion journalist, for Lieutenant Governor and Ramon Jimenez, a Harvard educated lawyer from the South Bronx known for his racially sensitive cases, for Attorney General.
[9] The party held an official founding convention February 13–14, 2011 in New York City, adopting a platform of "structural transformation of the political and economic system that included: An equitable redistribution of wealth, progressive taxation, free education from pre-k to post baccalaureate, jobs, reparations, housing, political prisoners, women’s rights, support for youth and seniors, end to police brutality and deadly force, and clean and renewable energy."
[11] Barron would continue to attempt to grow the party, namely running Michael K. Lloyd for New York City Public Advocate in 2013.