The "Center for Strategic & International Studies" study quoted by Axios saying left leaning violence has spiked sounds suspicious, maybe even invented, to me.

Kirk and this past weekend. That would put the bars even.

Any data on what is considered violence?

based on a somewhat different chart (Figure 3 in the CSIS report). https://www.csis.org/analysis/left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-united-states-what-data-tells-us.

The opening remark of the report reads: In recent years, the United States has seen an increase in the number of left-wing terrorism attacks and plots, although such violence has risen from very low levels and remains much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by right-wing and jihadist attackers.

Another chart in the CSIS report points out in clear terms the real difference in scale between Left and Right (Figure 4 in the SCIS report).

The MAGA world considers anyone calling them fascist to be a terrorist. It has never acknowledged the verbal or literal violence of its own adherents to be terror as such. It is always excused as 1st amendment expression like the January 6 assault on Congress.

I suspect that previous FBI reports on domestic terror identifying RW extremist groups as the major threat would strongly disagree with the AXIOS chart presentation.

IMO any remarks to the effect of a 2025 fall off in RW terror are a result of the change in FBI leadership, and political influence on how RW terror is reported and pursued, rather than the facts as we can observe them.

- I get PAGE NOT FOUND. just fyi.

And Jihadists might as well be GOP, anti women's rights, antiabortion etc.

vs "RW" and "LW" which appear to be referencing "domestic".

But I was basically pointing out that Axios apparently took the CSIS data and generated their own graph with just 2 categories, and flipped the RW & LW data on their plot as a reverse of how CSIS did theirs.

These monsters are just attributing the stuff MAGA does to liberals.