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Monday, August 27, 2012  The fight for gay rights is playing out in city halls and town squares throughout the nation's heartland, from southwest Missouri to the Kansas plains to Nebraska college towns.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012  Updated with video: Gunman who opened fire in Wisconsin Sikh temple exhorted other white supremacists to act

Thursday, October 06, 2011  An Oregon sheriff called the suspected killers' weeklong road trip by down the West Coast "a vicious, vile reign of terror."

Tuesday, May 18, 2010  A southwest Missouri man caught up in a federal sweep of white supremacists last year has been sentenced to federal prison.

Friday, June 26, 2009  Twin brothers from Illinois who authorities say are white supremacists have been charged in a 2004 bombing