the secretary of state offices around the country. Not only did they ask me to run, they asked me to put together a coalition of other like-minded secretary of state candidates. I got to work, Juan O Savin helped, and we formed a coalition." In May 2021, Marchant and Savin convened a meeting with conservative media figures, activists, and donors to strategize winning Secretary of State elections nationwide. According to Marchant, some of the approximately 40 participants in the Las Vegas meeting included Patrick Byrne, founder of Overstock.com; Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow; Brian E. Kennedy, former Claremont Institute president; and Joe Hoft, brother of Jim Hoft, the owner of The Gateway Pundit. The end result of the meeting was the formation of the America First Secretary of State Coalition, a group of 17 individuals running for Secretary of State positions in 17 states. Jim Marchant is President of the America First Secretary of State Coalition. All the coalition's members believe the baseless conspiracy theory that the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump by voter fraud. No widespread voter fraud for the 2020 election has been proven. Lastly, Marchant has made frequent references to a "globalist", "socialist", and "communist" "cabal" that controls the world. The term "cabal" is highly associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory. According to Marchant, Republican politicians have been "bought off and they get co-opted by the cabal, the socialist communist cabal." He also claims the cabal has rigged every election in Nevada since 2008 beginning with President Barack Obama, who Marchant believes was "installed by the communist socialist cabal". He claims, "in Nevada, we haven't elected anybody since 2006." Furthermore, Marchant believes the "cabal" stole the 2020 Presidential election with Dominion Voting Systems machines: "the cabal, the deep state cabal, basically invented the Dominion machines to cheat and they tested it in Venezuela first." This is a reference to an unfounded conspiracy theory that before his death in 2013, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez manipulated Dominion Voting Systems machines, which were planted by billionaire philanthropist George Soros to switch votes from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. He also claims the "cabal" purposefully used COVID-19 to destroy the country and that President Joe Biden is a puppet of the World Economic Forum, which Marchant calls "elitist globalists that control everything". Electoral history Personal Marchant's wife is bodybuilder Nikki Fuller.