What is reshaping the United States government in 2025 is not a single ideology or a fringe phenomenon. It is the convergence of three distinct but overlapping authoritarian movements — Christian nationalism, anti-democratic legal-intellectual infrastructure, and Silicon Valley techno-authoritarianism — united by shared personnel, funding, and the vehicle of the second Trump administration.
Christian nationalists want a government that enforces biblical law. Anti-democratic theorists at Claremont and the Heritage Foundation want a permanent executive seizure that makes electoral majorities irrelevant. Techno-authoritarians like Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel want to replace democratic governance with corporate CEO-dictatorship. These are not the same project — but they are cooperating, and the result is what we are watching unfold.
The connective tissue is money, personnel, and institutional infrastructure. Leonard Leo's $1.6B dark money empire funds the legal scaffolding. Heritage Foundation wrote the blueprint. Thiel funded the VP. Yarvin's RAGE plan became DOGE. And January 6 was not an aberration — it was the first armed manifestation of this convergence, organized by NAR-affiliated prayer groups, executed by militia networks, and enabled by Claremont-adjacent legal theory.
This map documents those connections as publicly known: financial flows, board memberships, personnel overlaps, and formal partnerships. Every node is sourced. Every connection documented.
These clusters are not isolated — they share personnel, funding, and strategy. The same individuals appear across multiple clusters. The same dark money flows through all of them. Search any cluster's key term in the interactive map to isolate and highlight all connected nodes simultaneously.
Key officials — Vought, Miller, Hegseth, Vance — are not merely sympathetic to these movements; they emerged directly from them. Vought ran the Center for Renewing America. Miller founded America First Legal. Hegseth was a Fox News NAR-aligned commentator. Vance was Thiel's protégé and cites Yarvin by name.
Think tanks that produced the intellectual infrastructure: the legal theories, the personnel pipelines, the executive orders, and the anti-democratic frameworks. Claremont's "Red Caesar" theory and Heritage's Project 2025 are both being implemented simultaneously.
Leonard Leo's network is the financial engine. A $1.6B donation from Barre Seid seeded the Marble Freedom Trust, flowing through the 85 Fund, DonorsTrust, and the Teneo Network to dozens of downstream organizations — all without public disclosure of the original source.
Organizations that captured the judiciary over decades and now use litigation as a political weapon. The Federalist Society provided judges; ADF drafted model abortion bans; America First Legal attacks voting rights; the Judicial Crisis Network ran dark money campaigns for each Supreme Court confirmation.
The spiritual legitimacy layer. The New Apostolic Reformation organized the Jericho Marches that directly preceded January 6; four of the six protest permits that day went to NAR-affiliated groups. NAR apostles met at the White House eight days before the attack. Doug Wilson preached at the Pentagon at Hegseth's invitation in February 2026.
Organizations that mobilize voters, recruit youth, and — in the case of the militia wing — provided the armed foot soldiers of January 6. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters operated in documented alliance during the Capitol attack. All defendants were pardoned on Trump's inauguration day 2025.
A distinct but converging ideological strand. Curtis Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment philosophy — that democracy is failed software requiring a CEO-dictator — was funded by Peter Thiel, who then groomed JD Vance as his political vehicle, investing $15M in Vance's Senate race and lobbying Trump to make him VP. Yarvin attended Trump's inaugural gala as "informal guest of honor." DOGE is his RAGE plan.
This network map was built from publicly available reporting, nonprofit tax disclosures (Form 990s), court documents, congressional testimony, and organizational self-disclosures. A connection is drawn between two nodes only when a concrete, documented relationship exists — a financial transfer, a formal board or advisory membership, a partnership agreement, or confirmed shared personnel.
Ideological alignment alone is not treated as a connection. Two organizations may share the same worldview and not be linked if no concrete institutional tie has been documented. Node sizes reflect organizational influence and centrality within the network as assessed from the public reporting record.
Each node description includes searchable ideological flags: CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST for organizations explicitly advancing theocratic governance; ANTI-DEMOCRATIC for documented anti-democratic positions or actions; and TECHNO-AUTHORITARIAN for the neo-reactionary Silicon Valley strand. Use the map's search function to isolate and visualize any of these clusters.