Choosing to focus on SWANA and SSEA Asia is an intentional choice to challenge the invisibilization of fascist and fundamentalist actors that are often overlooked and mischaracterized, obscuring their true infrastructure and connections. While some regions are heavily scrutinized through narrow lenses that may fail to name these actors for what they are, others are significantly neglected in cross-regional spaces, obscuring important links to regional and global counterparts where these forces are gaining traction. It is important to acknowledge that movements, local activists, researchers, and academics have long provided critical analyses, mappings, and resistance to these movements. However, fragmented knowledge production across regions often distorts the recognition of this broader interconnected threat that transcends borders, limiting both understanding and resistance. In this mapping, we see fascist and fundamentalist narratives act as iterations that harness economic crises, neoliberal policies and social fractures to cement their fascist and fundamentalist power. Militarism, as it manifests across both SWANA and SSE Asia, is not only the overt presence of armed forces but a pervasive ideology that infiltrates every facet of life, intertwining with national identity and economic survival. It transforms the state into a perpetual war machine, justifying its existence through the continuous production of enemies, both within and beyond its borders. This militarized logic and narrative extend into the civilian sphere, where the lines between governance and warfare blur, turning populations into both subjects of control and instruments of violence, all in service of maintaining a homogenized, compliant society. At the same time, in both contexts, we see digital fascism operating as the algorithmic extension of state power and the invisible hand that shapes state narratives, turning data into weapons of social control, and making the machinery of repression both flexible and invasive. In both contexts, actors use narratives that weaponize misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia as deliberate strategies to enforce a rigid vision of ‘purity’ rooted in the protection of ‘family values’. These ideologies do more than just marginalize; they are systematically deployed to fortify a societal hierarchy where gender and sexual conformity become symbols of national and cultural purity. In both contexts, we see how the calculated emphasis on purity serves to legitimize violence – both state-sanctioned and vigilante – against those who challenge these oppressive norms of gender and sexuality, further entrenching the power of fascist and fundamentalist projects. 6