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  1. 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 …
    cato.org/blog/politically-moti

    … or in this graphic from Time Magazine based on Cato data:
    time.com/7317383/political-vio

    #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

  2. "DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
    404media.co/doj-deletes-study-
    (#paywalled)

    "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.
    web.archive.org/web/2025091116

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #DOJ #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics