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Empirical incident-level research and terrorism datasets indicate that are responsible for more frequent and deadlier political violence than left-wing extremists , while scholarship on everyday prote...
Available sources show a complex picture: surveys and academic studies find that support for political violence has fluctuated and in some periods is similar across parties, while incident-level data ...
The Proud Boys present themselves as defenders of “Western chauvinism,” free speech and nationalism, but researchers and watchdogs say the group’s core ideology centers on misogyny, anti-immigrant sen...
The deadliest single-day terrorist attack since 1970 remains the September 11, 2001 strikes that killed about 2,990 people, and the largest recent mass-casualty Islamist events include October 7, 2023...
Proud Boys members have been tied to a wide range of violent incidents, civil judgments and criminal convictions — most prominently convictions for seditious conspiracy and related crimes for roles in...
Multiple reporting and public-source research tie the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach to organized participation by several far‑right extremist and militia groups — most prominently the Oath Keep...
Recent research and government reviews present competing pictures of U.S. domestic terrorism: long-run empirical reviews and government summaries show far‑right extremists have produced more fatalitie...
Statistics show religiously motivated violence is a measurable and rising concern in many regions — with Pew reporting growing religion-related hostilities and killings in dozens of countries — but wh...
Academic data show that in the United States, right‑wing and Islamist extremists have similar levels of violence in some datasets, while globally Islamist attacks tend to be deadlier; researchers foun...
There is no credible evidence that Joe Biden is a child molester: reporting and fact‑checks show no formal accusations, complaints, arrests or investigations alleging sex crimes involving minors again...
There is a measurable but comparatively limited pattern of left-wing political violence in the : researchers and government analysts document incidents tied to anarchist, environmental, and other far-...
Watchdog groups, academics and government reviewers have compiled decades of reports documenting episodes and patterns of extremists—particularly white supremacists and militia affiliates—serving in U...
Three types of major U.S. studies track domestic-extremist fatalities by ideology: government-syntheses and NIJ summaries drawing on multiple datasets, academic cross-ideological analyses using curate...
There is no single, authoritative count of “terrorist attacks in the U.S. in 2024” available in the supplied reporting; open-source datasets and expert analyses offer partial tallies by subset and per...
QAnon followers have been documented committing a range of real‑world harms—from vandalism and threats to kidnappings, arson and multiple homicides—and the movement’s beliefs also helped mobilize part...
Online platforms have been a persistent accelerant in the radicalization of lone offenders in the United States since 2020 by widening access to extremist propaganda, normalizing violence through repe...
Since 2017, reporting and compiled databases tie QAnon adherents to a range of high‑profile crimes including at least one fatal shooting, multiple murders and attempted murders, armed standoffs, a ter...
Federal indictments and trial evidence have documented both intra-group planning and cross-group contacts before and during Jan. 6, including encrypted group chats used by the Proud Boys, text message...