Neighbors around Woodlawn Lake spent Easter weekend dealing with something no one ordered: flyers promoting the Aryan Freedom Network, a self-described white-supremacist group, scattered across Jefferson Terrace and nearby Los Angeles Heights. The single-page leaflets urged residents to "stand up" against "pedophiles and groomers," featured a Nazi Totenkopf skull and listed the group's website in a stylized Fraktur font. Residents who shared photos on neighborhood message boards said the original post was later removed, but screenshots quickly kept circulating.
What Neighbors Found
One flyer read, "We stand against pedophiles and groomers - DO YOU?" then pushed readers to "Join us today!" and insisted the distribution was done "without malicious intent," according to San Antonio Current. The handout leaned heavily on Nazi-era aesthetics, using the Totenkopf skull associated with SS units and old-style Fraktur lettering often seen in Third Reich propaganda. Neighbors said the flyers appeared on Easter Sunday and were spotted near Woodlawn Lake and surrounding residential streets.
Who's Behind The Message
The leaflets carried the name Aryan Freedom Network, a Texas-based neo-Nazi organization that researchers say has expanded its presence across dozens of states. A Reuters investigation reported the group is led by Dalton Henry Stout and Tonya Sue Berry and coordinated from a rural Texas property, and that Stout credited President Trump with having "awakened" supporters. Analysts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue say AFN pushes the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, embraces Nazi symbols and has been flooding communities with free propaganda materials as part of a broader offline recruitment drive.
Neighbors Push Back
Esther C., the resident who first posted images of a flyer online, said her original Nextdoor post was taken down, but she kept warning neighbors anyway, according to San Antonio Current. "Hate groups are not welcome in our community," she wrote in a follow-up message. Other locals said the combination of nationalist symbols and recruitment-style language felt less like a random drop and more like an attempt to intimidate residents while normalizing the group's presence on their blocks.
What Experts Say
Researchers warn that outfits like AFN often wrap their messaging in seemingly mainstream causes, such as anti-pedophile language, to pull people toward more extreme ideology and make fringe beliefs sound acceptable. That tactic, along with the group's use of printable flyers and stepped-up offline outreach, has been documented by the Anti-Defamation League. Experts advise residents to document what they find, save photos of materials and report incidents both to local law enforcement and to organizations that track hate activity, including through the ADL's reporting tools.
