Authenticated user lost after redirect

Using Laravel 9

"require": {
        "php": "^8.0.2",
        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.2",
        "laravel/framework": "^9.19",
        "laravel/passport": "^12.0",
        "laravel/sanctum": "^3.0",
        "laravel/tinker": "^2.7",
        "tymon/jwt-auth": "^2.1"
    },

Ive been at this for almost 8 hours now and no amount of stackoverflow, laracast threads and chatgpt prompts where able to solve this issue.

I am trying to authenticate a user using oauth.

if($response->status() == 200){
                    $userInfo = [
                        'id' => $response["output"]['id'],
                        'first_name' => $response["output"]['first_name'],
                        'last_name' => $response["output"]['last_name'],
                        'email' => $response["output"]['email'],
                        'access_token' => $accessToken
                    ];

                    $user = New User($userInfo);
                    Auth::Login($user);
//                    dd(Auth::user());
                    return redirect()->route('home');
//                    return view("home");
                }

When I datadump the Auth::user() before the redirect it displays the authenticated user. When I datadump Auth::user() after the redirect in my homecontroller its returns false

When I return the home view I can see that the user is authenticated but when I go to a new page the authenticated user is gone.

All my routes are in the same group

//web.php
Route::group([], function () {
    Route::get('/', [HomeController::class, 'index'])->name('home');
    Route::get('login', [AuthController::class, 'index'])->name('login');
    Route::get('login/callback', [AuthController::class, 'callback'])->name('login.callback');
});

I double checked all session settings and tried file, database or cookie driver and nothing works. The only way I can get this to work is if I remeber the login. My session config is as follows

array:15 [▼ // app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php:13
  "driver" => "file"
  "lifetime" => "120"
  "expire_on_close" => false
  "encrypt" => false
  "files" => "/app/htdocs/storage/framework/sessions"
  "connection" => null
  "table" => "sessions"
  "store" => null
  "lottery" => array:2 [▶]
  "cookie" => "laravel_session"
  "path" => "/"
  "domain" => "localhost"
  "secure" => false
  "http_only" => true
  "same_site" => "lax"
]

kernel is as follows

protected $middleware = [
        // \App\Http\Middleware\TrustHosts::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\TrustProxies::class,
        \Illuminate\Http\Middleware\HandleCors::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance::class,
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidatePostSize::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\TrimStrings::class,
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ConvertEmptyStringsToNull::class,
    ];

protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
            \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        ],

Please help i am fighting for my life