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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.

For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.

He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.

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How Trump sold the Big Lie with just one word

Stephen H. Provost

Faith is just another word for loyalty, and one with similarly positive connotations – except for one small detail: Blind faith is never a good idea. Putting your faith in the wrong person can be disastrous. And Trump was definitely the wrong person.

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Why Trump's executive privilege claim should be tossed out of court in one word

Stephen H. Provost

Donald Trump is an everyday citizen now. He can’t assert executive privilege because he doesn’t have standing. Because of this, any judge who sees Trump’s lawsuit come before him has only one real choice, under the law. He or she must bang that gavel, stare Trump’s attorney in the eye, and say, “Case dismissed!”

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10 keys to fascism, and how Republicans are using them

Stephen H. Provost

If anyone doubts Republicans want a dictatorship, all you have to do is look at their actions. They’re using 10 keys to fascism in the hope, conscious or not, of unlocking a future where they and they alone are in power. It’s not just Trump’s big lie about the stolen election or the Jan. 6 insurrection. Those are just two of at least 10 elements in a strategy to dismantle American democracy and replace it with its antithesis.

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Republicans prove why censure is a joke

Stephen H. Provost

Censure was created as an alternative to expulsion that’s designed admonish an elected official for ethical misconduct or violations of a legislature’s rules. And that’s exactly how Democrats in favor of such a move would have used it to rebuke Trump. If sicking a violent mob on the Capitol isn’t an ethical violation, it’s hard to say what is. That’s not political, but the way Republicans have been using censure is.

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