A special report produced by Pioneer Newspapers Inc.

Oklahoma City, Ruby Ridge, and Waco -- examples of what happens when radical groups cross the line and in some cases, wreak havoc on a community, because government is their enemy. That's the theme of a special five-day report we began in conjunction with the second anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.

• Editor's Column: Covering a national tragedy
• The extremist movement still exists, but not in the frenzied state Americans grew to fear two years ago

The Daily News
Havre, Mont.

• History's heroes, modern-day blight
• Work for watchdog group is growing

The Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho

• Montana, Idaho are extremist magnets
• People, not beliefs, draw new recruits into hate

• U.S. attorney vs. Freemen leader: similar backgrounds, ideological opposites
• Freemen leader LeRoy Schweitzer sits in jail, preparing for court on his own terms
• Legislation illustrates people's distrust of the federal system

• Ken Medenbach's half-finished home flaunts his distaste for regulation

Daily Record
Ellensburg, Wash.

• Jural Society confronts what it believes is elected evil

• Fringe groups are finding value in low-cost, easy-access media such as the Internet and short-wave radio
• Ministry groups call Christians to arms
• Many Web sites contain what some might call extreme political rhetoric

• A group of nine Washington mothers finds that the First Amendment works against hate groups, too
• How to fight hate groups in your town

• Almost Heaven
• Citizens for the Second Amendment
• Common Law Courts
• Freemen (Montana Freemen)
• Militia of Montana
• North American Volunteer Militia
• Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment
• The Aryan Nations
• United States Militia Association
• Utah Ku Klux Klan
• Washington State Constitutional Militia
• Washington State Militia
• Wise Use Movement
• World Church Of The Creator