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‘You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.’ Fliers like these are showing up on lawns across the U.S.

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

Friends in her hometown of Coudersport, Pa., said someone had gone house to house the previous night and left plastic bags 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!”

Read entire article at The Washington Post