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State of Power 2026 Infographics - Visual longread

A new wave of authoritarian and far-right movements and governments is reshaping politics across the world. These infographics developed with Reactionary International trace how power is built and maintained through elections, religion, repression, finance, media, and transnational networks.

 

To understand this shift, it helps to look beyond national politics. Ideas, funding and strategies circulate internationally, and alliances are formed across borders. The infographics below map some of the structures of power that drive and sustain these movements.

Infographics design by Gabriel Silveira and research by Connor Mulhernn
 

 

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The New Authoritarian Wave

​Far right and authoritarian forces have capitalised on global economic insecurity and political alienation to win elections. This map traces their electoral success,  showing where far-right parties lead governments, shape ruling coalitions or are positioned to take power. It also tracks the main hubs and actors of transnational far right organising, represented here by the locations of significant numbers of transnational conferences and highlighting the key foundations and political networks that circulate funding, ideas and strategy. This has helped transform national movements into a coordinated global current.

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A Perfect Storm

​Electoral support for far right and nationalist parties has grown across much of Europe over the past decade. In several countries these parties now command large vote shares or hold governing power, while cooperation between parliamentary blocs has strengthened their influence at the European level. The trend reflects the failures of European Union and its members to address the economic insecurity caused by the global economic crisis, the COVID pandemic, and the cost of living crisis.

Download infographic: A Perfect Storm: Europe marches right (PDF, 1.6 MB)
Graphic: Europe marches right

Theocratic Wave

​Religious movements, particularly evangelical and Pentecostal churches, have become significant political actors in parts of Latin America. Their expanding social influence has translated into electoral mobilisation, media presence and policy campaigns, often aligning with conservative and authoritarian agendas on gender and education.

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Deal with the Devil

​Israel, particularly under Netanyahu, has built political relationships with far right parties and leaders internationally in pursuit of diplomatic backing, military cooperation and protection from accountability for its actions in Palestine. These alliances have included actors with records of antisemitism, historical revisionism or links to fascist traditions, from Europe to the Americas and Asia. Such partnerships reveal how Israel's geopolitical interests have supplanted its commitments to combating antisemitism globally. They have also helped legitimise far right movements and normalised their participation in mainstream politics.

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Infographic: Deal with the Devil

Big Tech and the Far Right

​​​Elon Musk’s growing political role illustrates how concentrated private power in the tech sector is fuelling fascism. Through control of a major social media platform, amplification of far-right narratives and direct engagement with reactionary figures and movements, Musk has helped normalise extremist rhetoric and expand its reach. The case highlights how Big Tech is increasingly allying with the authoritarian right. This is a dangerous development as they are providing a communications platform that can amplify the far right's voices as well as supplying powerful coercive tools for surveillance and control.

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Infographic: Big Tech and the Far Right

Authoritarian Crackdown

​The rise of authoritarian and far-right governments has been facilitated by a growing repression of civil society, including by supposedly 'liberal' democratic governments. Once far right parties come to power, the repression intensifies. Globally protest movements, independent media, trade unions and human rights organisations have faced ever increasing surveillance, legal restrictions and criminalisation.  A healthy democracy depends on an active civil society.

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Infographic: Authoritarian Crackdown

Funding Hate and Bigotry

Well-funded transnational networks have channelled billions into campaigns opposing gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive justice, weaponising these issues to secure support for broader far right authoritarian agendas. Foundations, advocacy organisations and political groups coordinate across borders, financing media campaigns, litigation and lobbying designed to roll back rights and reshape public discourse.

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Pulling the Narrative

Control over media systems is a central pillar of political power as it shapes the public debate and constrains attempts to hold powerful elites to account. In numerous countries, wealthy individuals aligned with conservative and far-right politics have acquired newspapers, television networks and digital platforms. This concentration of ownership has marginalised dissenting voices, strengthened the reach of authoritarian and racists narratives, and amplified the voices of dangerous far right leaders.

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Infographic: Pulling the Narrative

Spinning the Alt-Right Web

Think tanks, foundations and corporate donors form an extensive international infrastructure supporting free-market fundamentalism and nationalist politics. These networks train political leaders, shape policy agendas and coordinate messaging across continents, embedding far-right ideas within mainstream political and economic institutions and in the public debate. Atlas Network is one of the biggest networks of right wing think tanks - and while it does not neatly map onto all the threads of the global far right movement - it has been supported by and nurtured many of the far right's key organisations and figures.

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Further reading

State of Power 2026

​For further analysis of the ideas, networks and political forces explored in these infographics, explore the essays in the State of Power 2026 section below.

Notes and sources

The research for these infographics were done by Connor Mulhernn and the design by Gabriel Silveira. Here is a little more detail on the sources as well as some of the suppositions involved in selecting and visualising the data. If you spot any factual errors, please email stateofpower AT tni.org so we can correct them.​

Graphic 1: The New Authoritarian Wave: How the far-right spreads transnationally

This infographic involved a review of all elected governments, including those currently in power as well as incoming and outgoing governments, and their relationship to the far right. Countries without elections or with clear evidence of vote rigging, such as Russia, have been excluded. Electoral autocracies such as Turkey and El Salvador are included, as the votes themselves have historically not been rigged even if the broader political environment is extremely unfair.

Two countries — Switzerland (Swiss People's Party) and South Africa (Freedom Front Plus) — were excluded: while these far-right parties participate in governing coalitions, the political dynamics of grand coalitions do not fit neatly into this framework.

Belgium is also excluded: Although arguably led by a right-wing populist through the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which has increasingly adopted far-right elements, it has not yet been placed under a cordon sanitaire like Vlaams Belang 

Far-right conference locations indicate important hubs for transnational far right organising, based on the number of transnational conferences held in that country. The source is Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, 2024 mapping report, https://globalextremism.org/reports/mapping-the-far-right-the-movements-conferences-illuminate-its-growing-transnational-networks/, supplemented by additional manual review of some of the most influential far-right transnational organisations.

Graphic 2: A Perfect Storm: Europe marches right

This infographic involved a manual review of the 2024 European Parliament elections, as well as several previous cycles, excluding all parties that polled under 0.5%. The analysis looked more broadly at the ‘populist’ right, focusing on parties that adopted far-right rhetoric rather than relying solely on European Parliament group membership, which is the traditional convention. This approach was necessary because several important far-right parties remain among the ‘Non-Inscrits’ (not attached to a formal party grouping) for political reasons unrelated to ideology. S.O.S. Romania, for example, has been blocked from the ECR due to a poor relationship with the rival Alliance for the Union of Romanians, from Patriots for Europe due to tensions with Fidesz and Orbán, and from Europe of Sovereign Nations due to poor relations with the Our Homeland Movement.

Parties that include far-right elements were also captured, such as the New Flemish Alliance, since this graphic attempts to show where parties campaign using far-right rhetoric rather than where they hold governmental power. While European Parliament elections may suffer from low turnout, they provide a valuable snapshot across all member states at a single moment in time.

Ireland was excluded because its ranked-choice voting system makes vote share difficult to calculate, although far-right support was negligible. The German-speaking electoral college in Belgium was also excluded due to having no meaningful far-right party or party with far-right elements.

Additionally, the Walloon and Flemish regions of Belgium would be more accurately described as the French-speaking and Dutch-speaking electoral colleges, but were simplified for the graphic. 

Source: https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/

Graphic 3: Theocratic Wave: Evangelicals and the far right in Latin America

This graphic attempts to capture the relationship between evangelical communities in Latin America and the continent's far right. Data from Latinobarómetro was used. While its survey data produces unrealistic swings between survey cycles, Latinobarómetro is the only cross-country dataset available and gives a clear sense of trends. Given the wildly different forms of self-identification and conceptions of evangelicalism throughout Latin America, a consistent dataset was prioritised over more granular but incomparable national sources.

Brazil’s election results was the only country where a different data source was used. The 2022 second-round presidential election results by municipality were pulled from the Superior Electoral Court and crossed with evangelical population data (aged 15 and over) from the 2022 Brazilian federal census. Brazil is the only country with sufficiently granular data to show this relationship in a readable way, as many Latin American countries lack reliable government data on minority religions.

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Graphic 4: Deal with the Devil 

This involved a manual review of where the Israeli government has shown support for parties or other organizations or individuals that would have historically been considered untouchable due to their relationship with antisemitism. This looks at the current Israeli government in power, led by Netanyahu, who broke many of the taboos. 

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Graphic 5: Big Tech and the Far Right

This graphic attempts to show Elon Musk's efforts to boost the far right around the world, combining his individual endorsements with specific instances of intervention. It is one of the more brazen examples of Big Tech allying with the far-right

Graphic 6: Authoritarian Crackdown

This graphic combines CIVICUS Monitor ratings on civil society repression with World Bank population data, with minor edits to ensure consistency across the timeframe.

Specific countries were highlighted to show cases where civil society has deteriorated following the election of a far-right leader.

The Netherlands was excluded, as its decline was not driven by Geert Wilders specifically. Russia was also excluded, while its deterioration has been driven by the war in Ukraine, itself rooted in far-right nationalist ideology, the country has not been a functioning democracy for a long time.

Sources: CIVICUS Monitor, https://monitor.civicus.org/data/; World Bank, Population Data, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

Graphic 7: Funding Hate and Bigotry

This graphic combines a manual review of Equaldex, an index tracking global LGBT+ rights, with data on anti-gender funding to show where rights have faced restrictions or rollbacks over the past fifteen years.

The review identifies countries whose politicians enacted policies or laws to restrict LGBT+ rights and expression. Countries that merely formalised existing restrictions — such as explicitly banning gay marriage where no marriage rights previously existed — are excluded. The focus is specifically on government-led and government-initiated actions: court rulings are excluded, as are regulatory changes driven by medical associations, as occurred in Sweden and Finland.

Minor additions were made for countries such as Kazakhstan and Ecuador, which were not captured by the index but where policy rollbacks had occurred more recently than were captured by their peer review process.

This is supplemented by a manual review of key anti-gender actors operating transnationally.

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Graphic 8: Pulling the Narrative

This graphic was sourced through a manual review of influential right-wing billionaires, to show where media oligarchs are most actively shaping the narrative. This was combined with data from the Reuters Digital News Report and a manual review of the top ten traditional news sources by country across seven selected countries, to illustrate the broad institutional capture of media.

These countries were selected as they provide a cross-section of cases where serious right-wing institutional news capture has occurred, although numerous others could have been included.

Source: Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 2025, https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025

Graphic 9: Spinning the Alt-Right Web

This graphic combines multinational reporting on the sources of Atlas Network funding with the organisation's 2024 federal tax returns, to show where the Atlas Network is spending money and through what vehicles. The Atlas Network does not map neatly to the global far right movement and its different threads, as it is primarily a global thinktank network dedicated to neoliberal and libertarian economic policies, but it has been supported and nurtured by some of today’s most prominent far right think tanks and figures.

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Fascism State of Power 2026
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