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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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Ruminations and provocations.

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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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categories Politics, Trump
tags Republicans, fascism, dictatorship, authoritarian, GOP, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Donald Trump, Trump, Romney, Cheney, McConnell, Mitch McConnell, Putin, Nixon, Father Coughlin

GOP's two-faced leaders have one thing in common

Stephen H. Provost

There’s something more than politics to this. Giuliani, McConnell, Graham, Hawley, and Cruz all have one thing in common — other than being Trumpian sycophants, that is.

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categories Politics, Trump
tags Giuliani, Josh Hawley, Mitch McConnell, McConnell, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, hypocrisy, Trump, Republicans, white supremacists, Kamala Harris, Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Second Amendment, pro-life, religious freedom

Democrats must do this if the republic is to survive

Stephen H. Provost

Comparisons of Republicans to Nazis have been popular in some quarters, and I’m going to make one here. But it’s not a moral comparison, it’s a tactical one. Republicans are doing the same thing Hitler did when he took over one European state after another — after pledging not to — and British leader Neville Chamberlain let him do it. Instead of satisfying him, it made him more aggressive.

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categories Politics, Trump
tags McConnell, Trump, Donald Trump, Supreme Court, Supreme Court nomination, Mitch McConnell, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lindsey Graham