The DOJ Just Erased Receipts Showing Right-Wing Terror Is America’s Biggest Threat

When you catch someone deleting text messages, you know something shady is going on. Well, the Department of Justice just pulled that same move on a national scale. They erased an entire government study that exposed one of America’s dirtiest little secrets: domestic terrorism is mostly coming from the right wing.

This wasn’t some conspiracy blog or opinion piece—it was a peer-reviewed study by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), which is literally part of the DOJ itself. Until September 12, 2025, you could find it right on their website. Then suddenly—poof. Gone. Wiped clean. If not for the internet sleuths over at UNC Chapel Hill and the Wayback Machine archiving it, the evidence might have disappeared forever .

So what exactly did the report say? That white supremacists and far-right extremists are the single biggest domestic terror threat in the United States. Period. Not immigrants. Not Muslims. Not Antifa. But the very people waving Confederate flags, storming state capitols, and chanting “You will not replace us.”

And that truth? Apparently too inconvenient for those in power.

What the Deleted Study Revealed

Let’s break it down, because the DOJ might want to bury the receipts, but we’re digging them right back up:

• Far-right extremists commit more domestic terror than any other group. We’re talking bombings, shootings, mass casualty events, and organized plots.

• These attacks are deadly. From Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church massacre to the Buffalo supermarket shooting, the human toll is undeniable.

• The radicalization pipeline is strong. Online forums, YouTube, and even mainstream social media are funneling young men into violent extremist groups.

• It’s not new. The study also confirmed what Black and marginalized communities have been screaming for decades: right-wing violence has always been a shadow war against them, just now it’s harder to ignore.

This wasn’t opinion. This was data. Government-approved, peer-reviewed, fact-checked data. And that’s exactly why it had to go.

Why Erase the Truth?

The official line from DOJ is that they’re “reviewing” content under new Executive Orders and “related guidance.” Translation? Politics. Pressure. Power moves.

Let’s not act brand new: this deletion comes after a wave of political tension—most notably the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk and Trump’s push to reframe “domestic terror” as a left-wing problem. By removing this study, the DOJ is aligning its messaging with an administration that wants to target the “radical left” while ignoring the deadly reality of right-wing extremism .

This is bigger than one report. This is narrative control.

A Pattern of Gaslighting

Here’s the real danger: deleting a study doesn’t make the violence go away. But it does make the country less prepared to deal with it.

When the DOJ pretends far-right extremists aren’t the leading threat, resources get pulled away from investigating white supremacist groups. Suddenly, “domestic terror” becomes about environmental activists, racial justice protesters, or anyone who challenges the system.

This isn’t just erasure—it’s gaslighting. It’s making the public second-guess what they see with their own eyes.

The Receipts Don’t Lie: A Timeline of Right-Wing Terror

Want proof? Let’s lay it out plain:

• Charlottesville (2017): Neo-Nazis marched with torches chanting racist slogans. Heather Heyer was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into the crowd.

• Tree of Life Synagogue (2018): A far-right extremist murdered 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh.

• El Paso Walmart (2019): A shooter targeting Latinos killed 23 people, citing “replacement theory” rhetoric.

• Buffalo Supermarket (2022): A white supremacist murdered 10 Black people, livestreaming the attack.

• Capitol Insurrection (2021): Thousands of far-right extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop an election certification.

That’s not Antifa. That’s not the left. That’s right-wing extremism, loud and clear.

Why This Should Scare Us All

When a government starts erasing data to protect an image, we’re not just talking about bias—we’re talking about endangering lives. Communities that have always been targets—Black, Jewish, Muslim, immigrant, LGBTQ+—are once again being told their reality doesn’t matter.

Deleting this report isn’t just academic censorship. It’s a signal. A message to violent extremists that says: we won’t call you the problem. And history shows that when hate goes unchecked, it spreads like wildfire.

At the end of the day, the DOJ can delete links, but they can’t delete reality. The data is out there. The bodies are in the ground. The survivors are telling their stories.

What they can do is try to shift the narrative—painting the left as the threat, distracting from the very real danger the far-right poses, and gaslighting us into silence.

But let me be clear: silence is complicity. And we’ve seen where that leads.

So here’s my call: stay woke, stay loud, and keep demanding accountability. The truth doesn’t disappear just because the DOJ hits delete.

This isn’t just tea—it’s a five-alarm fire. If they’ll erase this study, what else will they try to hide?

Sources

• 404 Media – DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right-Wing (original reporting on the deletion, including archive evidence)

• Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) – Archived copy of the DOJ/NIJ study before it was removed.

• FBI & DOJ Reports – The FBI’s 2021 Domestic Terrorism Threat Assessment and DOJ statements confirming far-right extremism as the most persistent threat.

• Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – Annual reports tracking hate groups and extremist violence in the U.S.

• Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – Studies on right-wing extremism, noting that the majority of domestic extremist killings are linked to white supremacists.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) – Graduate researcher documentation of the study’s deletion, cited in 404 Media’s reporting.