November 1, 2001, Indiana. Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader Railton Loy receives a sentence of six months' probation and a small fine on a misdemeanor charge of telephone harassment. Loy had left a message with threatening remarks on the voice mail of a local newspaper reporter.

November 2, 2001, California. Melissa Doran receives a life sentence for driving a getaway car for her white supremacist boyfriend, James Alan Gamache, while he engaged in a running gun battle with police. She had earlier been convicted on four counts of attempted murder of a police officer. The two were under investigation for receiving stolen weapons when a police officer attempted to pull their car over. Doran drove away while Gamache fired at police. Gamache was a former member of the Nazi Low Riders, a racist prison and street gang.

November 2, 2001, Montana. Six members of a Montana skinhead group, the Montana Front Working Class Skinheads, are convicted for conspiring to violate the civil rights of minorities by attacking them in a city park in Billings in July 2000. Convicted are Sean Allen, Eric Dixon, Jeremiah Skidmore, Jason Potter, Ryan Flaherty, and Michael Flom (all but Skidmore were also charged with violating the civil rights of racial and religious minorities).

November 5, 2001, Arizona. Militia figure and tax protester William Cooper is shot and killed after shooting a sheriff's deputy trying to arrest him. Cooper, who had been living at his residence in Eagar, Arizona, as a fugitive "in plain sight," had been wanted on federal charges of tax evasion since 1998, but had threatened to kill agents who came to arrest him. When law enforcement officers finally tried to arrest him, however, it was not federal agents but local officers who showed up, because Cooper had recently been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of endangerment following incidents in which he had used a handgun to confront people who had stopped near his home. The officers tried to serve an arrest warrant on Cooper, but a shootout ensued. Cooper shot a deputy in the head, critically injuring him. Another officer then fired on Cooper and killed him.

November 7, 2001, California. A federal judge declares a mistrial in Sacramento in the case of two militia members accused of plotting to blow up propane tanks in order to create civil unrest against the government. Jurors had deadlocked 11-1 in favor of convicting Kevin Patterson and Charles Kiles, although they did convict Patterson on a charge of possessing a destructive device. A third defendant, Donald Rudolph, previously pleaded guilty last January and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. A retrial is later set for April 22, 2002; conviction would carry an automatic sentence of life in prison.

November 9, 2001, New York. Syracuse resident William L. Steele pleads guilty to possessing six rifles, including an AK-47, even though he is a convicted felon. Steele, a member of the Syracuse Area Skinheads, pleads to avoid going to trail, where he says prosecutors would "make me out to be the second coming of Hitler." He faces up to 10 years in prison.

November 13, 2001, Minnesota. St. Paul resident Michael J. Pigg pleads guilty to bias-related harassment for harassing a 4 year-old biracial boy following a Ku Klux Klan rally that Pigg attended. Pigg had originally been charged with fourth-degree assault. He faces several months in jail and electronic monitoring. A co-defendant, Jarod Sparks, faces trial.

November 15, 2001, Pennsylvania. Allentown area Ku Klux Klan member Stephen Kirka, Jr., receives a fifteen month federal prison sentence for selling silencers to an ATF informant. Kirka and a co-defendant, John R. D. Barker, had been active members of the Allentown Ku Klux Klan. Baker earlier received a three year sentence for his role.

November 21, 2001, California. White supremacists Travis Miskam and Jesse Douglas are convicted by a jury in Riverside on hate crime and assault with a deadly weapon charges, but are acquitted on attempted-murder charges. The two men, admitted members of the Western Hammerskins, a white supremacist skinhead group, attacked a black man at a bonfire near Temecula on St. Patrick's Day, 1999.

November 26, 2001, Minnesota. St. Paul resident Michael J. Pigg receives a sentence of 90 days of electronic monitoring at home for his role in a harassment incident following a Ku Klux Klan rally (see above, August 27). He is also ordered to remove racist tattoos from his body and to get counseling.

November 27, 2001, California, Washington. Christopher Turgeon, head of an apocalyptic, survivalist religious group known as the Gatekeepers, is sentenced to more than 50 years in prison for murder. Turgeon is already serving an 89-year sentence for other crimes, including attempted murder of a police officer. At the sentencing, Turgeon claims that God was angry with the United States for legalizing abortion, allowing homosexuality, and proclaiming equal rights for women. In the past, Turgeon had preached to followers that they should kill gays, abortion doctors, and advocates of women's rights. The group began in Washington before moving to southern California in 1997.

November 29, 2001, California. Two southern California men accused of beating an Orange County resident they thought was Mexican plead no contest to attempted murder, mayhem, and other charges. Ben Pospisil of Lakeside and Jason Phillips of Chula Vista were the main attackers in a group of people who assaulted the victim near the Mexican border in December 2000, shouting "white power" as they did so. However, a judge ruled during the trial that there was insufficient evidence to prove the beating was racially motivated. Two other suspects, Jeremiah Pospisil and Kristopher Gill, still face trial for assault, mayhem, and robbery.

November 30, 2001, California. White supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams receive lengthy prison sentences and hefty fines for setting fire to three synagogues and an abortion clinic in 1999 in Sacramento. Benjamin Williams is sentenced to 30 years in prison; James is sentenced to 21 years and 3 months. The two also must pay $1 million. They still face trial in April 2002 for the alleged slaying of a gay couple in 1999.

November 30, 2001, California, Missouri. Lancaster, California, resident Roland Duke Dean is arrested in Cassville, Missouri. Police called to the scene of a domestic violence incident allegedly found Dean hiding behind a false wall in a secret room full of marijuana plants. Dean, reportedly a member of a California white supremacist gang, is wanted in that state in connection with the alleged rape of a teenage girl in July 2001; he will be extradited back to California.