Claim: The majority of extremist political violence in the United States is committed by individuals with a liberal or "leftist" bias
Veracity: FALSE
Reality: Right-wing extremist political violence in the United States has far outpaced equivalent acts of political violence from left-wing sources for decades. Since 1990 far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left extremists; this period records 227 far-right incidents claiming 520 lives versus 42 far-left incidents claiming 78 lives. A National Institute for Justice report on domestic terrorism published in January of 2024 which reported these findings was removed from the NIJ website and buried by the Department of Justice under the Trump administration. (A copy of this report is mirrored on this server and available for download below.)
Liars:- Donald Trump: "Most [political] violence is on the left." (2025-09-10)
- Stephen Miller: "[Left-wing organizations are] a vast domestic terror movement" (2025-09-10)
- https://the-white-house.org/downloads/NIJ-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism#note44
- https://www.cfr.org/timeline/far-right-terrorism-united-states
- https://www.csis.org/analysis/left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-united-states-what-data-tells-us
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence
- https://www.newsweek.com/department-justice-terrorism-study-deleted-charlie-kirk-left-wing-2131683
- https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/right-wing-political-violence-is-more-frequent-deadly-than-left-wing-violence/