Just a few years ago, during the Biden era, it seemed the whole world had shifted left, with only a few outposts, such as Hungary and Poland, standing against the tide of woke ideology and the drift toward socialism. Today, that trend is reversing.

A right-wing movement is building across Latin America and Europe and, to a lesser extent, Asia and Africa, with many countries now led by conservative governments and several others likely to shift in the next election cycle.

In Latin America, conservative or right-leaning leaders already govern multiple countries.

In Argentina, Javier Milei won the presidency in November 2023 on a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist platform and followed with a strong midterm performance in October 2025, securing more than 40 percent of the national vote.

In Ecuador, incumbent Daniel Noboa won re-election in April 2025, defeating a left-wing challenger in a campaign focused on crime and corruption.

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, re-elected in 2024, is one of the region’s most prominent conservative leaders, known for his hardline anti-gang policies that have transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous nations in the Americas to one of the safest.

Paraguay’s Santiago Peña governs in alignment with Milei’s emerging regional bloc, while Panama’s José Raúl Mulino won the presidency in 2024, defeating a center-left incumbent. In the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader serves as a center-right president.

Bolivia also shifted right, with Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira winning the October 2025 presidential runoff, ending decades of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo party.

In Chile, voters elected José Antonio Kast to the presidency for the 2026–2030 term, delivering the largest vote total in the country’s history.

Honduras elected conservative candidate Nasry Asfura in November 2025 with 40.3 percent of the vote, and Costa Rica followed in early 2026, electing Laura Fernández Delgado by a wide margin while her Sovereign People’s Party secured a legislative majority.

Peru remains an outlier in terms of political stability rather than ideology. José Jerí, a member of the right-wing Somos Peru party, became interim president in October 2025 following the impeachment of Dina Boluarte, but was himself impeached in February 2026, underscoring the country’s political turmoil.

Venezuela may also be shifting. On January 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face narcoterrorism charges, ending his rule after more than a decade.

His vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, assumed the interim presidency, but the regime’s core institutions, including the military, Supreme Court, and ruling Socialist Party, remained intact.

Opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia is widely believed to have won the contested 2024 election by a large margin.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for free and fair elections, with U.S. officials suggesting they could take place by 2027. Whether Venezuela transitions to democracy or stabilizes under a reconfigured authoritarian system remains uncertain.

Looking ahead, several elections could strengthen the region’s conservative shift.

In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro’s term ends in 2026, and given his unpopularity and the country’s historical tendency toward right-leaning governments, analysts expect a difficult path for his coalition to retain power.

Brazil will hold elections in October 2026, with multiple conservative candidates in the race.

While Lula leads in polling, figures such as Flávio Bolsonaro and São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas remain competitive, even as Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running following his conviction related to an alleged January 2023 coup attempt.

Peru is also expected to hold a presidential election in 2026, with right-wing Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori among the leading contenders. If trends continue, these elections could expand conservative influence across the region, potentially leaving Mexico as the only major leftist holdout.

In Europe, the pattern is similar. In Germany, Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union won the February 2025 snap election after the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s coalition government in late 2024.

Merz’s conservatives secured 208 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, while the AfD placed second with 152 seats, its best result ever, doubling its support from 10.3 percent in 2021.

AfD leader Alice Weidel, the party’s chancellor candidate, has become the face of Germany’s fastest-growing political force.

She told supporters the result put the party on a path to government, if not now, then at the next election in four years.

An economist by background, she blames globalization for Germany’s problems, calls for tighter immigration restrictions, and supports a return to fossil fuels, citing Margaret Thatcher as her political model.

She received support from Elon Musk and was the first AfD politician invited to a pre-election TV debate, where she sparred with Chancellor Scholz and CDU leader Merz.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described her as the future of Germany, and Vice President JD Vance met with her during his February 2025 Munich trip.

In May 2025, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the AfD as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization, though a 2026 court injunction suspended that designation.

All mainstream parties maintain a firewall against coalition with the AfD, leaving Weidel with influence but no executive power for now. She is part of a growing group of women leading Europe’s right, alongside Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and France’s Marine Le Pen.

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party finished first in the September 2024 elections.

After coalition talks collapsed and Chancellor Nehammer resigned, President Van der Bellen tasked Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl with forming a government.

Giorgia Meloni has consolidated her position in Italy since taking power in 2022.

Her Brothers of Italy party won over 28 percent of Italy’s EU vote, and she remains one of the few European leaders enjoying strong popular support. In Poland, conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the presidency in 2025.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán remains entrenched in power, with his Fidesz party heading the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, which holds 84 seats.

In the Netherlands, right-wing parties won the most votes in 2023, and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom remains a major force, with his coalition forming the Dutch government.

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France won 31.4 percent of the vote in EU elections, prompting President Macron to dissolve parliament and call snap elections.

Only a coalition of the left and centrists blocked the RN’s path to power in the second round.

In the United Kingdom, while Labour holds power, Reform UK has made significant gains, winning roughly 42 percent of seats in local elections and taking eight authorities from Conservative strongholds.

Prime Minister Starmer recently described Reform as his main competitor for No. 10 Downing Street.

Across the 2024 EU Parliament elections, populist or far-right parties came in first in France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia, and placed second in Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands.

Right-wing populists are now in government or supporting ruling coalitions in Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Sweden.

In Asia, the most significant recent development is Japan. Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan’s first female prime minister in October 2025, called a snap election, and won a landslide in February 2026, securing the strongest majority for a Japanese government since World War II.

The LDP now has enough seats to override the upper house, propose constitutional amendments, and chair all lower house committees.

Takaichi has pledged to revise security and defense policies to bolster Japan’s offensive military capabilities, lift a ban on weapons exports, and push tighter immigration measures.

In India, Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party won a third consecutive victory in 2024 but were forced into a coalition after losing their outright majority.

In Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto won the February 2024 presidential election with 58 percent of the vote in the first round. He leads Gerindra, a nationalist, right-wing populist party, and assumed the presidency in October 2024.

Benjamin Netanyahu pieced together the most right-wing and religious government in Israel’s history following his 2022 victory.

He has dominated Israeli politics for three decades, serving as prime minister for eighteen of the last twenty-nine years. Elections are expected by October 2026, with the opposition remaining split, creating a structural opportunity for Netanyahu to remain in power.

The consistent pattern across these cases is economic discontent, opposition to illegal immigration, anti-crime sentiment, and voter dissatisfaction with incumbent centrist or left-leaning governments.

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Residents from Washington to California reported seeing a green fireball zoom through the skies in the early hours of Monday morning.

The American Meteor Society reported on Monday morning that it had received over 200 reports of a “green fireball” from residents in Seattle stretching all the way to San Francisco.

Manager of the American Meteor Society Mike Hankey stated, “A fireball meteor came into the atmosphere, and … it was a small rock from an asteroid, fragment from an asteroid.”

WATCH:

Did you see the meteor this morning? A bright green fireball was reported from Portland to Seattle. If you did see it, share your photos and video with us. https://t.co/ftL1YwTIOe pic.twitter.com/ys64HxrQA6

— KATU News (@KATUNews) March 23, 2026

Per KOIN:

Several people reported seeing a “bright green fireball” over the Pacific Northwest early Monday morning, according to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

Between 5:55 a.m. and 6:20 a.m., dozens of reports were submitted to the American Meteor Society’s fireball log from the San Francisco area all the way to Seattle.

According to Jim Todd with OMSI, fireballs are bright meteors that can be seen from a distance of about 60 to 80 miles above.

When meteors travel through the atmosphere, Todd said that they create fiction causing the meteors to burn up.

Another angle of the bright meteor:

@wkyc Reports a bright fireball streaking across central California overnight Monday was likely a meteor entering the atmosphere.

Video Cred: American Meteor Society pic.twitter.com/N2CncwCjjv

— The Triune Times (@TriuneTimes) March 24, 2026

In recent weeks, meteors have been spotted all throughout the United States.

Last week, a meteor was captured on video hurling through the skies of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

JUST IN – Meteor fireball seen over Pennsylvania and Ohio

( NWSPittsburgh) pic.twitter.com/OqDJHQ3Jot

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 17, 2026

Over the weekend, a woman in Texas had an up-close look at an asteroid after it crashed through her home.

READ:

Meteorite Tears Into Texas Woman’s Home After Fireball Seen Over Houston Area (VIDEO)

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Radical Democrat Governor Janet Mills, who is currently trying to fail upward into a U.S. Senate seat, was cornered this week and asked to account for her blatant lies regarding Joe Biden’s cognitive state.

Instead of an apology to the people of Maine for participating in one of the greatest cover-ups in American history, Mills offered a sickening laugh, dismissively smirking when asked why voters should ever trust her judgment again.

The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on how Democrat governors across the country acted as a “Praetorian Guard” for the Biden regime, shielding the public from the reality of a Commander-in-Chief who was clearly unfit for office.

Mills was among the most vocal, peddling the lie that Biden was “sharp” and “vigorous” even as the rest of the world saw the truth.

During an appearance on MSNBC, host Elise Jordan pressed Mills on the glaring contradiction between her public defense of Biden following his disastrous 2024 debate performance and her later admission that she privately urged him to step aside.

Watch the moment Mills realizes she’s been caught in her own web of lies:

Elise Jordan:
You said that asking candidates questions about their health—well, a lot of journalists and a lot of voters did that in the summer of 2024. And you defended Biden after his disastrous debate.

You said, quote, “Over the next several months, and especially in the coming days, I look forward to the president demonstrating to the American people the same heart, determination, and vigor he brought to our conversation this evening.”

But then, in a recent interview with The Atlantic, you said that you felt he should drop out and encouraged it privately. But you still gave that statement, and you said that his decision to run again, quote, “that was sad.”

So why should voters trust your judgment now, when you had one opinion privately that was very impactful on the fate of our country in the grand scheme of things, and then now, when you’re vouching for your own health—tell us why we should trust you?

Janet Mills:
Listen, I wasn’t going to kick the guy when he’s down, honestly. But we had a meeting with the president just a few weeks or so after the horrible debate, and I was one of the people who spoke up and said—all of the governors, Democratic governors, called for this meeting in order to try to dissuade him from running. That didn’t work at that time.

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Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan lawyer who served as a High Court Judge in Uganda beginning in 2013 and as a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the successor body to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since May 2023, was convicted on 13 March 2025 at Oxford Crown Court on four counts: conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, arranging travel with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labor, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.

She was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017. She was studying for a doctorate in law at Oxford University at the time of the offences.

Mugambe had met the victim in Uganda when the victim was 19 years old and employed her there as a nanny and maid.

When Mugambe relocated to the UK on a Tier 4 student visa, a category that did not permit her to sponsor a worker, she arranged to bring the victim to continue in that role.

Because she lacked the legal right to sponsor a visa, she conspired with John Leonard Mugerwa, then Deputy High Commissioner of Uganda to the UK, who agreed to sponsor the victim’s entry under a diplomatic servants scheme.

False employment contracts and a false Certificate of Sponsorship were created stating the victim would work as a paid housekeeper at the Ugandan diplomatic residence.

The intention from the outset was that the victim would instead live and work unpaid at Mugambe’s private home.

The quid pro quo for Mugerwa’s participation was that Mugambe would assist him in a court case in Uganda in which he was a defendant.

The sentencing judge found that Mugambe made multiple attempts to contact the Ugandan judge handling Mugerwa’s case, and that judge refused to take her calls.

Mugambe later told Mugerwa that the judge had not returned her calls because the judge “fears talking on the phone.” The court treated this statement as evidence that she was aware the contact was improper.

Mugerwa was not charged because the Ugandan government declined to waive his diplomatic immunity, despite the Crown Prosecution Service having authorized a conspiracy charge against him.

Once in the UK, the victim was required to cook, clean, and provide childcare without pay, receiving only food and board. Mugambe confiscated the victim’s passport and biometric visa card.

Over time, Mugambe increasingly restricted the victim’s ability to take outside employment when it conflicted with domestic demands.

The victim eventually recovered her documents and contacted a friend, who alerted police. Officers received a tip on 10 February 2023 that a woman was being held in servitude at Mugambe’s home in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

After her arrest, Mugambe violated her bail conditions by organizing attempts to contact the victim through her niece, a legal researcher, the victim’s pastor, and the victim’s mother. Messages recovered from electronic devices seized in August 2024 documented the scheme.

In one message, Mugambe instructed that the victim’s mother should “convince her to stop betraying us.”

In another, she wrote that if the victim told police she had dropped the matter, “they have no case to take to court.” The trial at Oxford Crown Court ran from February to March 2025.

At sentencing on 2 May 2025, Judge Foxton assessed Mugambe’s culpability as medium, noting significant planning and premeditation but finding this was not a case involving a criminal hierarchy.

Harm was assessed at Category 3: the victim suffered psychological harm and ongoing fear, and the exploitation ran for approximately eight months.

The judge found no remorse and noted that Mugambe continued to characterize herself as the victim. He described her account to police and to the court as “thoroughly dishonest.”

Mitigating factors included the absence of prior convictions, a record of public service, including the Vera Chirwa Human Rights Award in 2019, character references from judicial bodies and fellow judges, the impact of imprisonment on her three children aged 8 to 17, and diagnosed mental health conditions, including major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.

The judge acknowledged the adverse effects of prolonged separation on the children but found the mitigating factors did not justify reducing the sentence below what he considered the minimum commensurate with the offences.

The total sentence was six years and four months: five years and six months on the lead trafficking count, with concurrent terms of 18 months and three years on the immigration and forced labour counts respectively, and a consecutive ten months for the witness intimidation conspiracy.

Mugambe will serve up to one half of the sentence in custody, with the remainder on licence. She was ordered to pay the victim $15,300 in compensation and made subject to a restraining order prohibiting any contact with the victim until further order of the court.

The victim’s personal statement described living in fear and isolation in the UK, unable to return to Uganda to see her family, and unable to disclose the address of the safe house where she is staying, which has made it difficult for her to obtain employment.

The case attracted public comment in Uganda, some of it critical of the victim, which has been a source of distress. The victim was subsequently granted asylum in the UK.

The IRMCT waived Mugambe’s judicial immunity in July 2024 after becoming aware of the investigation and discontinued her participation in tribunal business.

Her profile was removed from the IRMCT website following her conviction. Mugambe has since resigned from the UN position.

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