He warned me there would be consequences if I failed to comply with his demands to air a white-supremacist video.

Then, nothing happened.

Today, hate-group researchers said they have identified the man behind the anonymous social media app that targeted me and others in Middle Tennessee who, he perceived, were standing in Gabrielle Hanson’s path last fall to becoming mayor of Franklin.

And now that man faces his own consequences.

Kai Liam Nix, 20, an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Liberty in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is now in federal custody.