Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Bomb Nashville Power Grid

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Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Bomb Nashville Power Grid
By Jim Thomas   
Tuesday, 09 September 2025 04:26 PM EDT
Newsmax

A 24-year-old Columbia, Tennessee, man pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and plotting to destroy an energy site in Nashville, a plan that federal authorities say could have knocked out electricity to thousands of homes and hospitals, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Skyler Philippi admitted in federal court that he schemed for months to attack critical infrastructure, according to court documents and prosecutors. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced Jan. 8, 2026.

John A. Eisenberg, assistant attorney general for national security, said Philippi's plot represented a grave threat. ...

In August 2024, Philippi revealed to an undercover employee that he had written a "manifesto" targeting what he described as "high tax cities or industrial areas."

He referenced ties to the extremist Atomwaffen Division and the National Alliance. By September, he had conducted reconnaissance on a specific Nashville substation and ordered explosives through undercover federal agents posing as suppliers.

Court documents detail how, on Nov. 2, 2024, Philippi participated in a Nordic ritual with undercover operatives before preparing to launch his assault. ...

I was going to guess Trantifa, but it looks like he's a wannabe Stormtrooper.

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Also described as a "white supremacist."

... Philippi communicated his intentions to commit a mass shooting at the YCMA facility in the Columbia area and attack substations to confidential sources, according to court documents. He wanted to use a drone with explosives like Triacetone Triperoxide, a high-energy explosive material also know as TATP, or C-4 to maximize damage.

He made disturbing statements towards confidential sources during the plot such as "This will go up like a fu**in fourth of July firework" and saying he wrote a "manifesto." Additionally, he told an undercover employee he wanted to attack the energy site because “high tax cities or industrial areas to let the kikes lose money."   ...