[10] Similarly, when The Freedoms & Rights Coalition issued a statement expressing interest for the participation of several additional parties, none of them joined.

The Electoral Commission had decided to allocate broadcasting funds to them collectively on the basis that they were a "group of parties" that had joined forces.

[22][6] David Seymour, the leader of ACT New Zealand, said, "I don't think that you could have a serious conversation with people who hold a show trial for crimes against humanity".

[26][27][28][29][30][31] On 10 August, a Taxpayers' Union-Curia poll listed Vision NZ on 1.1% and Outdoors and Freedom on 0.5%, for a total vote share of 1.6%.

These included Sue Grey standing for Outdoors & Freedom in West Coast-Tasman, and Vision NZ's Karl Mokaraka in Panmure-Ōtāhuhu.

[33][34] In August Mokaraka and a group of supporters chased Labour leader Chris Hipkins with horns and loudspeakers to spoil a campaign visit to the Ōtara Markets.

[35] Eight days later Mokaraka disrupted a press conference by climbing a fence to heckle National leader Christopher Luxon and transport spokesman Simeon Brown in Pakuranga.

[36][37] Hipkins said that "Brian Tamaki and his mob are very determined to disrupt the election campaign...Ultimately, that's anti-democratic...I don’t think a party that thought it had any shot at getting into parliament would be doing that.

[39] On 2 September, Chris Hipkins' speech at the Labour Party's official campaign launch in Auckland was interrupted three times by Freedoms NZ protestors.

[40] Another group of Freedoms NZ protesters appeared outside a New Zealand First rally in Nelson a week later, prompting leader Winston Peters to say, "About eight months ago they wanted me to join them".

He called himself "the man on the fence" - a reference to the National Party press conference he'd spoiled a few weeks earlier - and yelled for several minutes.