Overview

• A new CNN analysis highlights research showing right-wing extremists are responsible for most politically motivated killings, contradicting recent claims from the president and his aides.
• A Cato Institute study tracking about 3,600 politically motivated murders over 50 years attributes 391 deaths to right-wing ideology versus 65 to left-wing ideology, including a 44 to 18 split over the last five years.
• An NIJ-referenced analysis found far-right extremists killed more than six times as many people as far-left extremists since 1990 (520 versus 78), though the DOJ has removed the NIJ page for review.
• The White House has signaled a crackdown on left-leaning networks, including talk of labeling Antifa a terrorist organization, a move experts say would be unprecedented against a domestic entity and faces legal constraints.
• Polling is mixed: an NCRI survey found sizable left-leaning minorities endorsing some justification for violence in specific scenarios, while broader polls such as PRRI’s have consistently shown higher support for political violence among Republicans.