petersuberSep 17, 2025

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice [#NIJ] and hosted on a #DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted."

Here's the archived copy in the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

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Update. The report the #Trump #DOJ just took down was originally released in June 2024, during the #Biden administration. But the Biden National Institute of Justice (#NIJ) wasn't the only research org to conclude that most domestic terrorism in the US is from the right wing.

The conservative #CatoInstitute (@cato) reaffirmed that conclusion last week.

According to Cato research, there were 620 politically-motivated murders in the US in the last half-century. 391 were from the right and 65 from the left. (The rest were from Islamism, separatism, or other ideologies.) Politically-motivated right-wing murder is more than 6x as frequent as politically-motivated left-wing murder.

These numbers do not count the deaths from the 9/11 attacks because they were not domestic terrorism.

See the numbers in the Cato Institute report from last week …
https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states

… or in this graphic from Time Magazine based on Cato data:
https://time.com/7317383/political-violence-america-trump-crackdown-right/

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Sep 18, 2025 at 3:54pmWeb