According to a new report from the Washington Post, right wing extremist groups and people with far-right ideologies account for four times the number of domestic attacks in the United States since 2015 than left-wing affiliated groups.

The report, compiled from data from the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies, shows that 2020 marked the highest level of homegrown terrorist activities in the United States since 1994.  Since 2015, there have been 267 conducted or planned by right-wing extremists groups, resulting in 91 fatalities.  Over that same time, only 66 cases of planned or completed left-wing terrorists plots, which resulted in 19 fatalities, have been identified.

More than 25% of the far-right attacks have been conducted by individuals or groups that identify with white supremacist ideology and were violence against members of the Blacks, Jews, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, Asians communities.  They include attacks against mosques, synagogues and Black churches. 

The CSIS database shows a record-high 74 attacks by right-wingers in 2020, the highest since the organization started tracking the statistics in 1994.  Left-wing violence including multiple attacks against oil pipelines.  The CSIS database categorizes the attack against the Minneapolis Police station during last summer’s unrest as a “left wing” incident, even though members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing extremists groups were charged as being instigators of the attack.

The only death attributed to far-left extremists in 2020 was the shooting of a Proud Boys member in Portland.

So far in 2021, CSIS has identified 17 incidents of politically-motivated violence, with 11 linked to right-wing extremists and only 4 to left wingers; two others fit neither political profile.