Visitors to City Park on Saturday morning may have encountered an unpleasant surprise on the pavement: white supremacist messages written with black spray paint in three different areas. “We’ve had spray-painting before, but never messages like this,” Collin Lenton of the Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department said as he was scrubbing graffiti off one […]
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White supremacist propaganda disguised as a health warning distributed in Coralville

Some Coralville residents found flyers with white supremacist messages thrown onto their lawns and driveways on Wednesday. The adhesive-backed flyers from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, were wrapped around copies of the Muscatine Parks & Recreation newsletter. Muscatine Parks & Rec, of course, has nothing to do with the National Alliance, but in addition […]
White supremacist banner hung in North Liberty on Juneteenth

Early Friday morning, supporters of a white supremacist group hung a banner on an I-380 overpass in North Liberty. “The sign was in this area along I-380 near Forevergreen Road. Drivers came across it before 6 a.m. Friday morning and police quickly took it down,” KCRG reported. The banner said “Reclaim America,” and “Patriot Front […]
White supremacist propaganda disguised as COVID-19 warning distributed in eastern Iowa

White supremacist propaganda disguised as a health warning about COVID-19 is being distributed in eastern Iowa. Residents in Iowa City, North Liberty, Cedar Rapids and Davenport have recently reported finding messages from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, tossed onto their lawns. Stickers labelled “National Alliance health warning #3” have been stuck onto rolled-up copies […]
White supremacist fliers distributed in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids

Some residents of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids woke up on Monday to find adhesive-backed fliers from a white supremacist group on their lawns and driveways. The anti-immigrant messages found on both the westside of Iowa City and in southwest Cedar Rapids were wrapped around rolled-up old copies of Little Village magazine. The fliers, which […]
White supremacist fliers distributed in Muscatine

Some residents of Muscatine woke up this morning to find adhesive-backed fliers from a white supremacist group on their lawns and driveways. The anti-immigrant messages were wrapped around rolled-up copies of Little Village magazine from June 2019. This is the fifth time someone associated with the National Alliance has used copies of Little Village to […]
White supremacist fliers distributed in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids neighborhoods

Over the past two days, residents in some neighborhoods in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids have been finding adhesive-backed fliers from a white supremacist group on their lawns and driveways. The anti-immigrant messages are wrapped around rolled-up copies of Little Village magazine from spring 2019. […]
White supremacist fliers distributed in LeClaire (Updated)

Some residents of LeClaire, Iowa, woke up on Thursday morning to find fliers from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, on their lawns and driveways. The fliers distributed in the city of 4,000, located near the Quad Cities, were wrapped around copies of Little Village. This is not the first time someone associated with the National Alliance has […]
Cedar Rapids man charged with making threats of violence against a Jewish organization

A 31-year-old Cedar Rapids resident has been charged with making violent threats against a Manhattan-based Jewish organization, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday. Garrett Kelsey called and emailed an organization only identified as the “Victim Organization” by the U.S. Attorney […]
White supremacist flyers distributed on Iowa City’s north side

Flyers promoting the neo-Nazi National Alliance started appearing on Iowa City’s north side Monday night. A resident out for a walk along the 900 block of N Governor Street spotted one of the flyers on the sidewalk. It was contained in the sort of clear, plastic bag used to deliver newspapers, and wrapped around an […]