North Texas man linked to neo-Nazis accused of threatening to lynch, kill Nashville DA

A North Texas man who is a member of an antisemitic neo-Nazi group is accused of threatening to lynch and kill the district attorney in Nashville.
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a criminal complaint that David Bloyed, 59, posted numerous threats against District Attorney Glenn Funk on the social media platform Telegram.
Bloyed, who lives about an hour south of Dallas in Frost, was in Nashville in July for a protest with the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League when a fight broke out between a member of their group and an employee of a Nashville bar, the Justice Department said in a news release.
During the July 14 protest, an unnamed member of the neo-Nazi group was arrested for alleged aggravated assault for repeatedly hitting the employee with a metal flagpole affixed with a swastika, according to the criminal complaint.
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Following that encounter, a Telegram account posted threats against the district attorney, the Justice Department said. One included a photograph of the DA with the caption, “Getting the rope” and an emoji finger pointed at Funk. Another showed a person hanging by the neck from a gallows with the phrases, “The ‘Rope List’ grew by a few more Nashville Jews today,” and “Will you survive the day of the rope?”
“Day of the rope” is a white supremacist concept taken from The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel about a white supremacist revolution. In the book, white supremacist rebels overthrow the U.S. government, then execute mass lynchings of purported “race traitors,” such as journalists, politicians and white women in relationships with non-white men.
Authorities later identified a social media account on Gab with an almost identical username, Schwettyballs. A subpoena of Gab showed the account belonged to Bloyed. The accounts contained nearly identical threats, the Justice Department said.
Both Telegram and Gab have emerged as popular social media networks among the far-right, and Gab in particular has received criticism for allowing racist and hateful speech.
Bloyed did not immediately respond to request for comment from The Dallas Morning News. In 2023, he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that his actions were not offensive or harmful because he was not physically combative during any of the demonstrations.
If convicted, Bloyed faces up to five years in federal prison, according to federal prosecutors. A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said Wednesday it cannot comment on a pending case.
Bloyed and his group have previously been cited for distributing antisemitic flyers in Fort Worth, including outside Dickies Arena and Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum in 2023, according to the Star-Telegram. Bloyed received a trespass warning and a citation for disorderly conduct.
Speaking under a fake name, Bloyed later spoke at a Fort Worth City Council meeting that year to argue that distributing flyers was protected under the First Amendment, the Star-Telegram reported.
In an interview with the newspaper, Bloyed described his group’s protests as “the most peaceful activism ever.”