The Murder of Alex Pretti and the Road to Dictatorship
We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis
We Saw the Devil
4.2 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On January 24, 2026, ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot ten times..mostly in the back...after trying to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground by ICE agents. Video shows he was disarmed before he was killed. Within hours, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called him a "domestic terrorist." Hours after his death, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a chilling demand: hand over your state's voter rolls, or the federal agents stay.
In this episode, Robin connects the dots between the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, the expansion to Maine, and the Trump administration's nationwide campaign to seize voter data from 24 states. What emerges is a terrifying picture: immigration enforcement as political weapon, federal agents as a goon squad punishing dissent, and a roadmap to consolidated authoritarian power.
- The execution of Alex Pretti: What the videos show vs. what DHS claims
- Witness affidavits: Shot in the back, after being disarmed
- Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller's "domestic terrorist" lie
- Pam Bondi's extortion letter: Voter rolls for peace
- Why Minnesota? Why Maine? The pattern of targeting Democratic states
- The DOJ's lawsuit against 24 states for voter data
- DOGE's secret agreement to share Social Security data with election deniers
- Where this is heading: Escalation, Insurrection Act, rigged midterms
- The witness who is terrified ICE is coming for her
- Where is the Democratic Party?
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| 0:00.0 | His name was Alex Prettie. He was 37 years old, an ICU nurse at Minneapolis VA. |
| 0:08.5 | He spent his days literally caring for veterans, you know, the people that Republicans pretend to give a shit about. |
| 0:15.6 | He was an American citizen, a legal gun owner with a valid permit. His criminal record? Traffic tickets. Yesterday morning, |
| 0:25.8 | he watched federal agents shove a woman to the ground. And what did he do? He decided to |
| 0:31.2 | try, he tried to help her up because that's what decent human beings do. They pepper |
| 0:37.1 | sprayed him. They tackled him, |
| 0:38.9 | they pinned him face down on the pavement |
| 0:41.2 | while one agent beat him in the fucking head. |
| 0:44.9 | Another agent disarmed him, |
| 0:46.4 | took his legally owned firearm right off of his body out of the holster, |
| 0:50.5 | which, by the way, Alex never tried to grab his gun. |
| 0:58.6 | And then the agents shot him 10 times in the back. A physician who examined him at the scene filed a sworn affidavit shot in the back, while |
| 1:05.8 | pinned to the ground after being disarmed and all of this was caught on video. |
| 1:11.8 | And within hours before any investigation, before any evidence was reviewed, |
| 1:16.9 | before his parents even knew that their son was dead, |
| 1:20.3 | the White House called him a domestic terrorist. |
| 1:24.2 | Welcome to America, January 25th, 2026. |
| 1:28.9 | We're not sliding into authoritarianism anymore, y'all. |
| 1:32.2 | We're not at risk of fascism. |
| 1:35.3 | We're not showing signs of, you know, backsliding. |
| 1:39.6 | We're fucking there. |
| 1:41.3 | We're in it. |
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