Tyler’s chief skills were in marketing and conscription. She owned a Klan newspaper called Searchlight and sent weekly missives to “kleagles,” recruiters around the country tasked with expanding the KKK’s reach. Tyler encouraged them “to study their territories, identify sources of concern among native-born Protestant whites, and offer the Klan as a solution,” writes Kathleen Blee. The “sources of concern” could be anyone: “Mormons in Utah, union radicals in the Northwest, and Asian Americans on the Pacific Coast.”
