In a 2014 recruiting campaign, the group left flyers near cars as well as in driveways in predominantly white neighborhoods of
Texas,
Louisiana,
Illinois,
Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, In July 2015, members of the
Loyal White Knights, which is currently considered the largest KKK chapter, and members of the
Trinity White Knights protested against the removal of the
Confederate flag from the
South Carolina State House in
Columbia, South Carolina, in the wake of the
Charleston church shooting. Their rally in front of the State House was also attended by members of other KKK chapters, members of the
Neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, and
Christian fundamentalists. According to press reports, protesters waved
Nazi flags, and chanted
racial slurs before they clashed with
black counter-protesters. Chris Barker, the group's "
Imperial Wizard" was noted as the organizer of a "
White lives matter" demonstration on March 2, 2016, in
Anaheim, California, when KKK members attacked counter-protesters, triggering a fight when a KKK member stabbed a counter-protester with a flagpole. His compatriot William E. Hagen AKA Will Quigg, the "California Grand Dragon West Coast King Kleagle" of the
Loyal White Knights and as such in charge of the area from Texas to the Pacific, although questions have been raised by
Snopes over the sincerity of his endorsement. The group has faced internal conflicts and leadership changes, for instance there have been instances where announcements regarding leadership were made and then retracted, indicating some level of disorganization. In 2017, members of the group participated in the
Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia alongside the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the
alt-right,
neo-Nazis,
white nationalists/
supremacists,
Southern nationalists/neo-Confederates,
Identitarians, the
Proud Boys, and members of various
militia groups. Earlier on July 8, 50 members of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had held a rally in Charlottesville which was denounced by hundreds of counter-protesters. In July 2017, Chris Barker was interviewed by
Univision's
Ilia Calderón. During the interview, he called Calderón a racial slur and stated that his group was going "to burn you out". In reference to immigrants, He also stated: "We killed 6 million Jews the last time (a reference to the
Holocaust).
Eleven million is nothing" (referencing the illegal immigrant population of America). Also in 2017 around
Valentine's Day, members distributed fliers inviting people to join the chapter. These flyers were left on driveways as well as in yards around
Grand Junction, Colorado. According to the
Anti-Defamation League, the Loyal White Knights managed to distribute propaganda to more than fifteen states, and getting an average of 79 Klan fliering incidents per year. ==Criminal activity and arrests==