FirstNet has ties to the 2020 Election, the Nashville Christmas bombing, the Jan 6 pipe bomber, more. What’s really going on?
We’ve reported on FirstNet a number of times.
FirstNet and the 2020 Election
We first reported on FirstNet and its connections to the 2020 Election a couple years ago. David and Erin Clements uncovered the following:
- …we broke the story that a nationwide cellular network for “public safety” called FirstNet was being used to connect election systems throughout the country.
- Previously, it was believed that there could be no centralized national access to the precinct-level election equipment because the disparate networks and equipment used in each voting jurisdiction would make centralized spying or hacking too unwieldy. The existence of FirstNet blows that theory out of the water.
- These real concerns have already proven to be true, as investigators discovered the Albert Sensor program, whereby the federal government monitors every registration database in the country through a partnership with a secretive non-government organization known as Center for Internet Security (CIS). CIS runs the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).
- CISA teamed with a FirstNet representative and officials from New Jersey to promote that state’s implementation of statewide connectivity to AT&T’s FirstNet network. The presentation revealed that New Jersey uses FirstNet compatible Nighthawk Hotspots and Cradlepoint modems which are initially configured by AT&T and connected to the state’s 14,000 electronic pollpads before being delivered to the voting locations.
- An email obtained from AT&T to Utah’s elections director, Justin Lee, shows that AT&T was actively soliciting states to use federal HAVA grants for “election security” to connect their election systems to their cellular network…
- CTCL funds [Zuckerbucks] were used to pay for a FirstNet connection to election equipment in Kenosha County in the swing state of Wisconsin…
- A Newsweek article stated …“cellular modules made by Chinese firms…are in more than 130 devices certified by the FirstNet Authority for use on their dedicated first-responder network.”
Christmas Day 2020 Bombing in Nashville
On Christmas Day 2020, as actions to steal the 2020 Election were in high gear, a bomb in downtown Nashville exploded. Police thought it was an “intentional act”.
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— Josh Breslow (@JoshBreslowTV) December 25, 2020
The blast shutdown the AT&T network for hundreds of miles and the Internet.
A week later on January 1, 2021, FirstNet reported:
On Christmas morning, a motorhome packed with explosives detonated directly in front of the AT&T central office facility in Nashville. The bombing resulted in an outage that affected the Internet, phone, and wireless services of all major carriers, including FirstNet, in the local area as well the wider region. The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) has been working closely with AT&T and local, state, and federal officials following the attack. Based upon initial analysis, it appears the FirstNet network infrastructure was not directly impacted by the explosion, and service continued operating on temporary battery power in the hours immediately following the event. However, because the bomb destroyed two local water mains, backup power generators were flooded and inoperable, and there was insufficient time to reroute all services before backup batteries were exhausted.
As the incident unfolded, AT&T recovery resources and the dedicated fleet of FirstNet deployable network assets came online and provided critical connectivity to FirstNet users in affected areas. FirstNet deployable assets arrived on the scene less than five hours after the blast, and local FirstNet services were restored within four hours after batteries were exhausted, supporting multiple agencies that were responding to the events on the ground. These assets function like self-contained mobile cell towers and link to FirstNet via satellite, providing service to first responders as well as other authorized users.
What was the real reason for the Christmas Day Nashville bombing?
Jan 5-6 RNC Pipe Bomb
Pipe bombs located on Jan 6 in DC in front of the RNC and DNC Headquarters, respectively. This was later reported as the reason for emptying the US Capitol. The individual who planted the pipe bombs has never been found.
The woman who identified the RNC pipe bomb worked at FirstNet.
- Karlin Younger wanted to get her laundry done early on Jan. 6.
- “As I was going back into the alley that’s when, by sheer luck, that’s when I looked down and see this piece of metal debris, that I thought was a metal piece of recycling or something,”
- When she was at UW-Madison she studied international relations and Chinese.
- I studied abroad in China, I taught English over there. I went to grad school overseas and worked over there for a while.
- She went to graduate school at the University of Oxford and after graduation got a job at a London-based consulting company called Control Risks as an analyst working on “transnational terrorism.”
- Younger works for the Department of Commerce in an independent agency called FirstNet, working with telecommunications for first responders.
FirstNet Unable to Identify Pipe Bomber Because Jan 5 Data is Corrupted
We were informed yesterday (October 1, 2025) about an email from FirstNet to Congress on Biden’s Inauguration day (January 20, 2021). The Firstnet employee stated that the Jan 5 data used to identify the pipe bomber was corrupted. The email from 2021 is below:
Despite the FBI sending AT&T a preservation request to help identify the person who planted the pipe bombs, an AT&T employee told the FBI that the data from 1/5 was corrupted. AT&T later responded and said the server was overloaded due to the large quantity of data being pulled.
The Select Subcommittee shared the following yesterday:
In December of 2020, the FBI signed a 5-year, $92 million contract with AT&T’s FirstNet, which ensures service when networks become congested during emergencies. The individual who found the first pipe bomb on 1/6 was an employee at FirstNet.
— Select Subcommittee on January 6th (@J6Select) October 1, 2025
David Clements notes that all this took place just 2 weeks after an AT&T/FirstNet facility was mysteriously bombed on Christmas Day.
Concluding Remarks/Questions
- FirstNet was created to enable communications during emergencies when other communications channels are flooded.
- FirstNet was in place across the country during the 2020 election.
- Components used by FirstNet are from China.
- Zuckerbucks were used in some cases to ensure FirstNet was in place and ready before the 2020 Election (i.e. Wisconsin)
- FirstNet could enable election communications outside of normal communications channels.
- A facility in Nashville was bombed on Christmas Day 2020 outside a facility that affected FirstNet communications for hundreds of miles.
- It’s unknown if the Christmas Day bombing targeted FirstNet data.
- A FirstNet employee who studied in China found the Jan 6 bomb outside the RNC.
- FirstNet emailed the FBI that the data related to Jan 5 was corrupted.
- The government could identify Americans at the Jan 6 protest at the Capitol but not the pipe bomber on Jan 5.
- Is China involved due to its equipment being used in FirstNet systems?
- Are there any ideas why FirstNet data was destroyed on Christmas Day 2020 in Nashville?
- Are we still using FirstNet in elections?
- Are we using FirstNet with its Chinese parts in our emergency communications system?
- Is anyone concerned about this?
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