DOJ Deletes Study Alleging Rise In Far-Right Terrorism In US
Source: Newsweek
Published Sep 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM EDT
The Department of Justice appears to have deleted a study which documented the frequency of far-right violence in the U.S. from its website.
The removal was first reported by 404 Media. There is an archived listing of the study available online, but it no longer appears to be hosted on the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs page, where it was previously. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice declined to comment on this article.
Why It Matters
The reported removal comes after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and conservative activist, Charlie Kirk. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during a speech at Utah Valley University on September 10 during his "American Comeback Tour."
The murder and subsequent reaction from individuals across the political spectrum and media sphere have sparked a conversation about political rhetoric and free speech.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/department-justice-terrorism-study-deleted-charlie-kirk-left-wing-2131683
Link to 404 Media article - DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Link to Cato Institute REPORT - Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States
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so unAmerican, so unchristian to lie deliberately by omission - and to willingly defy the Ten Commandments.
make no mistake about who the G.O.P. is and who they really follow,
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! 
and they can't claim they are some "left wing org". That's why their DOJ deleted reference to it and it's "news". 
The Justice Department has taken down a study that proves Republicans’ entire narrative wrong about left-wing violence.
DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists newrepublic.com/post/200537/... via @newrepublic.com
— Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) 2025-09-16T21:36:35.758Z
The study was available online at least until Friday, according to 404 Media, but can now only be found via a Wayback Machine link.
The study, published in 2024 and conducted by the National Institute of Justice, is titled, “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism.” The first words are: “Militant, nationalistic, violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”
“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives,” the study noted. “In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”
It’s highly likely that the DOJ took this study down because it doesn’t fit with the narrative the GOP is trying so desperately to push about the left being to blame for the bulk of political violence in this country, willfully ignoring countless examples of that not being the case at all.
