At least four of the killings in 2020 were committed by members or associates of white supremacist prison gangs.Five of the deaths of 2020 were at the hands of anti-government extremists, including two people killed by adherents of the new boogaloo movement.This past year was the second year in a row that no killings linked to domestic Islamist extremism occurred. The remaining death was at the hands of a left-wing extremist. All but one of the incidents documented (including 16 of the 17 murders) were tied to right-wing extremism over half were linked to white supremacists. As has been the case for most of the past 30 years, the extremist-related murders of 2020 were overwhelmingly associated with right-wing extremists.Similarly, ADL has documented more than 4,500 incidents of white supremacist propaganda distribution in the U.S. For example, ADL statistics record 16 right-wing extremist-related terrorist plots/attacks in 2020 (through November), an increase from the 13 documented in 2019. The low number of killings does not mean that extremists were less active overall in 2020.The main reason the number of extremist-related murders in 2020 is so low compared to most recent years is because of an absence of mass shooting sprees or other mass casualty attacks like the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting or the 2018 synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.This represents a significant decrease from the 45 extremist-related murders documented in 2019 and the 54 murders of 2018 in fact, it is the lowest yearly total in ADL statistics since 2004, which saw only 14 extremist-related murders. In 2020, domestic extremists killed at least 17 people in the United States, in 15 separate incidents.Extremists regularly commit murders in the service of their ideology, in the service of a group or gang they may belong to, or while engaging in traditional, non-ideological criminal activities. Every year people with ties to a variety of extremist movements and causes kill people in the United States ADL’s Center on Extremism tracks these murders.

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