The US Government Deleted Its Own Study Showing Far-Right Violence Dominates Domestic Terrorism
The U.S. Department of Justice quietly scrubbed a study from its website that confirmed that far-right extremists have carried out more ideologically motivated killings in the United States than any other group. An archived version of the study still remains online.
The report came from the National Institute of Justice, the DOJ’s own research arm, and it documented hundreds of killings linked to far-right violence since 1990. Now it’s gone from the official records, removed from public view in mid-September, just as the country reels from a wave of political bloodshed.
The document was live until Friday the 12th of September, when its disappearance was reported on by the journalist Jason Paladino. In the study, it was noted that “U.S. extremists and individuals who commit hate crimes routinely come from across the ideological spectrum, including far-right, far-left, Islamist, or single-issue ideologies,” however it did go on to outline how far-right ideology leads the way when it comes to ideological attacks and domestic terrorism.
And this did not happening in a vacuum. The regime, the media that supports it, and right-wing influencers are attempting to make a deal out of the ideology of the shooter behind the assassination of a fascist YouTuber, an ideology they have so far claimed to be ‘left-wing,’ without providing much evidence for the claim. The same individuals have so far failed to provide this analysis when it comes to the actual political assassination of Minnesota House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, despite having months to make these assertions.
While the regime and media figures sympathetic to it are busy demonizing the left, trans people, the unhoused, and political opponents of all kinds, the government has effectively erased evidence of the threat from the right. This while Fox News host Brian Kilmeade openly called for the killing of homeless and mentally ill people, when at least two suspected lynchings have shaken communities in the South, and when assassinations of politicians have already become a reality.
Within the discord around the death of Charlie Kirk, we have seen the use of trans individuals as an outlet for the rage of the far-right. This is no accident. Trans people have been demonised for years in the USA, especially by those in the far-right, and now much of the media are attempting to use the trans community as an ‘other’ to pit themselves against.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is dominating headlines, but the country still hasn’t reckoned with the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband just months ago, a political execution largely ignored outside of Minnesota.
Taken together, this picture is chilling. A regime that allows its allies to dehumanize entire groups, ignores the assassinations of elected officials, and deletes its own research about the primary source of domestic terror is not simply negligent, it is manufacturing a narrative. It is creating a public memory where right-wing violence vanishes, while anyone outside the regime is painted as the threat.