Republican Marsha Blackburn, Congress’s biggest net neutrality opponent who also lists AT&T as one of her most generous campaign contributors, has been elected to the Senate in Tennessee. The results from Tuesday’s midterm vote projected an early lead for Blackburn over Democratic candidate, and former Tennessee Governor, Phil Bredesen.

“As long as people vote for candidates controlled by AT&T and Comcast, those companies will control the future of the internet,” Christopher Mitchell, director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Community Broadband Networks Initiative, said via email Tuesday night.