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Heather Cox Richardson on the execution of Alex Pretti
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24-2026 . . .
Just hours after the killing of Alex Pretti, agents pinned U.S. citizen Matthew James Allen to the street while he screamed: "I have done nothing at all. My name is Matthew James...Allen. I'm a United States citizen.... You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want? You want to kill me? You want to kill me on the street? You're going to have to f*cking kill me! I have done nothing wrong." Nearby, his sobbing wife screamed: "Stop please! Stop!! Please!! We were just running away from the gas. That's all we were doing."
"We all know the poem," Blue Missouri executive director Jess Piper wrote, "and there is no shade of white that will save you from this murderous regime."
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Just hours after the killing of Alex Pretti, agents pinned U.S. citizen Matthew James Allen to the street while he screamed: "I have done nothing at all. My name is Matthew James...Allen. I'm a United States citizen.... You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want? You want to kill me? You want to kill me on the street? You're going to have to f*cking kill me! I have done nothing wrong." Nearby, his sobbing wife screamed: "Stop please! Stop!! Please!! We were just running away from the gas. That's all we were doing."
"We all know the poem," Blue Missouri executive director Jess Piper wrote, "and there is no shade of white that will save you from this murderous regime."
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