On Nevada radio, Jim Marchant has been unleashing bizarre and unhinged conspiracy theories about the “cabal”

A Nevada radio program has been a supportive platform to bizarre and unhinged election conspiracy theories from Republican secretary of state nominee Jim Marchant. During his appearances, Marchant has ranted about a global conspiracy of bankers controlling “everything” in the world; alleged Democrats and Republicans have “installed anybody they want'' in Nevada since 2008; and claimed a “cabal” has been purposely destroying the country, including through COVID-19, so they can “rebuild it in the fashion that they want.”

Marchant leads a coalition of “America First” candidates, which consists of Republicans who back the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and are seeking offices that oversee voting in their respective states. Marchant and his coalition have also collaborated with QAnon conspiracy theorists.

Marchant frequently appears on the Reno, Nevada-based program America Matters with Eddie Floyd. On the program, which airs on KFOY and is live-streamed through Facebook, Marchant is given carte blanche to espouse election conspiracy theories and promote his campaign. (Facebook frequently hosts election misinformation and conspiracy theories.) Host Eddie Floyd also falsely portrays Marchant as an expert on voting issues, claiming at one point, “Nobody, I think, knows more about technology and the history of what has taken place with Dominion [voting machines] than you.” Marchant and Floyd have a financial connection: Marchant has paid Floyd’s company America Matters Media $1,413 between July 1, 2021, and February 27, 2022, for advertising expenses, according to Nevada campaign finance records.

In Marchant's telling, there is a “socialist,” “communist,” and “globalist” “cabal” that is responsible for rigging elections. At the top of this conspiracy is the World Economic Forum, a group of “elitist globalists that control everything” in the world, including President Joe Biden.

According to Marchant, the “cabal” has been responsible for a variety of sins, including rigging every election since 2008 in Nevada and exporting that model to the rest of the country; registering “illegals” at the DMV and then harvesting their ballots; installing Barack Obama as president; buying off countless Republican officials; purposely destroying the country, including through COVID-19, so it can rebuild it to its specifications; and rigging the 2020 vote through the use of Dominion voting machines.

Marchant’s allegations are bizarre considering that while he claims “in Nevada, we haven’t elected anybody since 2006” because of vote rigging, he won a Nevada state Assembly seat in 2016. Marchant also recently won his Republican primary (he’s still raised doubts about the result). He has also attempted to explain away the presence of red states by claiming they only exist to make the cabal’s cheating not “too obvious.” The cabal was also not powerful enough to stop Donald Trump from winning in 2016.

Media Matters previously reported that Marchant used his America Matters platform to express support for a proposal requiring voters to re-register. The program's hosts praised Marchant and didn’t explain to listeners that such a plan would violate federal law and was a mechanism of Jim Crow segregationists who used it to prevent Black people from voting.

The pro-election lies program America Matters has frequently featured election conspiracy theories from Jim Marchant. Here are many of them:

Marchant claimed that "we haven’t elected anybody since 2006” in Nevada because all those elections have been “rigged” and Obama was “installed by the communist socialist cabal.” From October 18, 2021:

From the October 18, 2021, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

JIM MARCHANT: In Nevada, we haven’t elected anybody since 2006 -- 2008 on has been rigged. They have been -- they have installed anybody they want from 2008 on. And think about it. Obama's first election, he had the ACORN mess down in Vegas and all over the place. And you think from then on is when they perfected, because they put this, they came up with the plan in the 2004/5 time frame after the 2000 election and 2004 when Bush got reelected. So they put this in place and they perfected it right here in Nevada and they exported it all over the country. So, and then think about it. I really don't think Obama won. I think that he was installed by the communist socialist cabal. RINO. I’ll include RINOs in there, too. And from then till 2020, the 2020 election is a direct result of that plan that was hatched in 2004 and implemented beginning in 2006.

EDDIE FLOYD (HOST): Wow. You know, I've got to share with you, number one, I totally agree with you.

Marchant falsely claimed that “the cabal, the deep state cabal, basically invented the Dominion machines to cheat and they tested it in Venezuela first.” Marchant’s claim about Dominion Voting Systems originating in Venezuela is false. From August 23, 2021:

From the August 23, 2021, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

EDDIE FLOYD (HOST): Nobody, I think, knows more about technology and the history of what has taken place with Dominion than you. Can you fill our listeners and viewers in on that?

JIM MARCHANT: Yeah and I don't know if we've ever talked about this before but the cabal, the deep state cabal, basically invented the Dominion machines to cheat and they tested it in Venezuela first. And if you remember, Venezuela was one of the most wealthiest countries in the world until they got Dominion voting machines. And look what happened. They're pure socialist communists now. And you look at their economy, it is a total disaster.

And that's what they want here. And that's why they devised these Dominion voting machines and that's why they hatched their plan in 2004. And, you know, Eddie, it started right here in Nevada, George Soros and Harry Reid. Actually, we were the guinea pigs for the Dominion machines. And once they perfected it, they exported it all over the country. And that's why the 2020 election was a totally rigged election. And I -- whenever I speak, I ask everybody in the audience, I says, “Is there anybody here that really believes Joe Biden was legitimately elected?” And everywhere I go, not one hand goes up. Nobody believes that he was legitimately elected. So that's because of the Dominion voting machines.

Marchant said that the election-rigging “cabal” allows red states to exist “because we can't have all blue states because that would be too obvious.” Floyd later prompted Marchant to promote his campaign. From March 30, 2022:

From the March 30, 2022, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

JIM MARCHANT: Like I've said many times, George Soros and Harry Reid and the cabal have figured this out a long, long time ago. And, you know, in recent times, 2004, when they hatched their secretary of state project plan and they implemented it in 2006. And I maintain and this makes some of my RINO colleagues, Republicans, mad, but I say that nobody has been elected since then. They've been installed and collected by the cabal since then and, you know, that's why our country is in the shape it's in right now. And, you know, a lot of people say, well, you know, we have red states. Well, of course we have red states because we can't have all blue states because that would be too obvious, right? They make sure that they've got Republicans in name only running with them and they're satisfied with their second place standing and satisfied with where our country is right now because they're being taken care of. And I'm not satisfied with it. So I'm trying to do something about it. And there are a lot of us out there that are trying to do something about it.

Marchant claimed that an international banking cartel of “elitist globalists” controls “everything” in the world. From April 18, 2022:

From the April 18, 2022, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

LEO ZACKY (CO-HOST): You know, Jim, we were talking a little bit about this during the break, and I wanted to just expand on it. You know, everybody's, you know, wondering how can we be in such a mess? And what it comes down to is, is that people have become apathetic, but they've -- and we've allowed this evil globalist cabal to come in. And I love that you talk about it so openly, because I do as well. And, you know, people are waking up to it. It's so real. You know, when I go and I make speeches now, you know, I ask the crowd, I'm always like, you know, if I mention a name like Klaus Schwab or George Soros, does that mean anything? And I always get, you know, you know, applauds or cheers, you know, an acknowledgment that they do. That is really what's behind all this. And it goes back to the international banking cartel. Care to elaborate?

JIM MARCHANT: Well, yeah, you're exactly right. And the World Economic Forum, which I believe Klaus Schwab is one of the heads of that. And these are the elitist globalists that control everything.

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MARCHANT: We have let them gain [inaudible] over the last 100 years. And we are in [inaudible], but we've let the elitists rule our lives.

Marchant claimed that Republicans elected officials have been “bought off and they got co-opted by the cabal, the socialist communist cabal.” From November 29, 2021:

From the November 19, 2021, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

JIM MARCHANT: Our Constitution is just about gone and we've got to fight back just -- We have to fight as hard against them as they fight against us. And they have for the past 50 years, they have taken away more and more of our freedoms and subverted our Constitution to the point where we are in the shape we are right now because of that. And we were asleep. And we were hoping that our elected officials would do what they were supposed to do. But unfortunately, they got bought off and they got co-opted by the cabal, the socialist communist cabal, and they were doing their bidding for them as Republicans. So, you know, we need to get Republican conservatives elected, not just Republicans that are in name only.

Marchant said the cabal wants “to destroy our country and rebuild it in their eyes the way they want it as a socialist, communist, tyrannical government” and “all of what's happening now, with COVID, everything, is by design.” From November 29, 2021:

From the November 29, 2021, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

JIM MARCHANT: The cabal is to destroy our country and rebuild it in their eyes the way they want it as a socialist, communist, tyrannical government. And that's what they want. And all of what's happening now, with COVID, everything, is by design. It is to destroy our country so they can rebuild it in the fashion that they want, which is, you know, dictate. We'll just call it what it is. That's what they want. They want to rule with an iron fist. And we here in America are not going to allow that to happen.

Marchant’s DMV conspiracy theory: “Illegals” are being unknowingly registered at the DMV so the “cabal” can “get a hold of their ballots.” On November 12, 2021, Floyd went on a rant about Democrats bringing in undocumented immigrants “with any and every disease you can imagine” just so they can be new voters. Marchant responded by claiming:

From the November 12, 2021, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

JIM MARCHANT: Let me tell you, these -- the illegals that are being registered by the DMV, a lot of them don't even know they're registered. And the purpose of that whole plan is to just get them registered because the cabal knows how to get a hold of their ballots.

LEO ZACKY (CO-HOST): That's right.

MARCHANT: They know how to get a hold of them and vote for them. And that's what's happening. And that's what we've got to stop.

Marchant claimed that Biden is “a puppet of the World Economic Forum” and “they control just about everything in America, in the world, actually.” From May 2, 2022:

From the May 2, 2022, edition of America Matters Media's America Matters with Eddie Floyd

JIM MARCHANT: So you mentioned Barack Obama, whether he's the puppet master of Joe Biden. I think he's a puppet of the World Economic Forum. And if you don't know who they are, look them up. They own just about everything. They control just about everything in America, in the world, actually, and everything that happens here in America. And that's who needs to be taken out. And I'm hoping that we're doing it, praying that we're doing it as we speak.

On Nevada radio, Jim Marchant has been unleashing bizarre and unhinged conspiracy theories about the “cabal”

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