‘”You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.’ Fliers like these are showing up on lawns across the U.S. The Washington Post Derek Hawkins

© Courtesy Jaimi Hajzus A flier found on lawns in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.

Jaimi Hajzus woke up Saturday morning to a string of worried texts.

Friends in her hometown of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, said someone had gone house to house the previous night and left plastic Baggies filled with lollipops, rocks and paper fliers on dozens of lawns in the town’s main thoroughfare.

Inside, they found a disturbing message.

“Are there troubles in your neighborhood?” the fliers read. “Contact the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan today!”

Printed on the crinkled slips of paper was an image of a hooded Klansman pointing a finger in the style of the iconic Uncle Sam recruitment poster, along with something of a slogan: “You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.”

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