September 22, 2025 - But research shows that the majority of political violence comes from people following right-wing ideologies. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.

October 3, 2025 - Indeed, until this past year, data from multiple sources show that political violence in the U.S. had mostly been driven by right-wing extremism — white supremacy in particular.

October 23, 2025 - Just over half of Americans see left-wing (53%) and right-wing (52%) extremism as major problems.

May 18, 2026 - The Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program examines the state of political violence, finding left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below historic levels of violence by right-wing and ...

3 weeks ago - Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.

October 28, 2025 - Executive Summary The preponderance of evidence across long-term datasets shows right-wing political violence has produced more deaths and higher lethalit...

They found nearly no difference between the likelihood of an Islamist extremist and a right-wing extremist committing an act of violence; the probability of a violent act of extremism in the United States being committed by a left-wing extremist was found to be 0.33, 0.61 by a right-wing extremist, ...

April 26, 2026 - Scholars and watchdogs using event databases find that incidents tied to right‑wing ideologies outnumber and often kill more people than those tied to the left; comparative studies report that left‑wing acts are less likely to be violent, while U.S. data show right‑wing and Islamist attackers ...

The findings from two studies, ... violence. First, data on extremists in the United States showed that left-wing radicals were less likely to use violence than right-wing and Islamist radicals....

June 23, 2026 - Maverick activists on the left hold virtually no political power at any level of government, but their views have achieved outsized cultural sway. Despite their asymmetry, the bogeyman of these two groups is fueling the other and is the main ...

October 1, 2025 - Independents see equal blame for both sides, with 87% saying left and right are equally a problem, 4% saying the left is more of the problem, and 9% saying the right is the bigger problem. The survey was conducted Sept. 15-24, 2025, interviewing 1,043 adults nationwide, with a margin of error ...

September 15, 2025 - Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers (see chart 1). … One paper by Celinet Duran of the State University of New York at Oswego studied political violence between 1990 and 2020.

July 16, 2026 - Across multiple academic datasets and government reporting, far‑right political violence in the United States has been more frequent and deadlier over recent decades, though incidents linked to the far left have risen in the last several years from a very low base and briefly outnumbered ...

3 weeks ago - According to a 2021 Criminology, ... of far-left perpetrators. Far-right homicides have also occurred more often than jihadi violence inspired by Islamic extremism (not shown in chart). Multiple studies from 1975 onward have found greater rates of right-wing political violence in ...

September 17, 2025 - Trump and members of his administration ... research shows that the majority of political violence comes from people following right-wing ideologies....

Right-wing extremists commit more political violence in the USA than left-wing extremists, with left-wing violence being less frequent and less severe.

August 30, 2026 - She concluded that left-wingers had committed twice as many as right-wingers. It is refreshing to see some conservatives finally challenge the myth of right-wing violence, but they have less incentive than leftists to keep the argument going.

September 11, 2025 - Although incidents from the left are on the rise, political violence still comes overwhelmingly from the right, whether one looks at the Global Terrorism Database, FBI statistics, or other government or independent counts.3 Yet people committing ...