SAN MARCOS, Texas — Authorities are investigating who is responsible for posting threatening flyers addressed to supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris in San Marcos.

What You Need To Know

  • Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris in San Marcos have reported finding threatening flyers just over a week before Election Day, police say

  • The flyers, signed by the Grand Dragon of Trump Klan in San Marcos, call Harris supporters “miscreants” and threaten “4 years of painful misery and attorney’s fees”

  • Police inform anyone who finds one of the flyers on their property to call police at at 512-753-2108 to remove it

  • In Hays County, where San Marcos is located, President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election

The flyers, signed by the Grand Dragon of Trump Klan in San Marcos, call Harris supporters “miscreants,” threaten “4 years of painful misery and attorney’s fees” and mention “hangman’s nooses of the old days.” The Grand Dragon is the highest-ranking Ku Klux Klan official in Texas, according to records from the Bullock Museum.

The flyers were found attached to political yard signs at multiple residents’ homes over the weekend, just over a week before Election Day.

“Greetings! YOU have been identified and are now in our National Database of miscreant Harris supporters, either by social interactions with your neighbors who are on our investigations team, or by yard signs, or vehicle bumper stickers,” the flyer read. “Rather than the hangman’s nooses of the old days, you are now guaranteed that once the magnificient (sic) Donald Trump assumes the Presidency again, YOU will be IRS tax audited going all the way back to your very first tax return — and at a minimum — 4 years of painful misery and attorney’s fees.”

SMPD encourages anyone who finds these flyers to leave them in place and contact the department’s non-emergency number at 512-753-2108. Police will send an officer to investigate and remove it.

“It’s a crime in the state of Texas to try to influence or coerce or even prevent a voter from voting,” San Marcos Police Chief Stan Standridge said in a statement to NBC affiliate KXAN. “When we identify the suspect or suspects, then we will present that to the district attorney’s office for consideration of applicable charges.”

In Hays County, where San Marcos is located, President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election. Biden received 54.4% of the votes in the county and Trump received 43.6%. Statewide, Trump won in Texas.

In nearby San Antonio, a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat in support of Trump at a polling site punched an election worker who told him to remove it. Wearing merchandise in support of a candidate at a polling site is illegal in Texas.