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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 liberals push white allies toward extremism

Stephen H. Provost

How many open-minded people wind up feeling so shamed by liberal identity-blame that they embrace racist extremism? It’s hard to say. But the defensiveness is real, and many who don’t wind up in bigoted cults will feel caught in a Catch-22: The side they agree with will never fully accept them, but they don’t agree with the side that would.

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How journalists traded truth for balance — and gave us this mess

Stephen H. Provost

In a desperate attempt to retain their audience, newspapers and broadcast networks changed their mission. Instead of simply reporting the facts, they started interviewing spin doctors on both sides of the political fence. In short, they replaced devotion to the truth with a quest for balance as their prime directive.

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Stalker President: Blaming the victims of Trump's abuse

Stephen H. Provost

Donald Trump refuses to just go away and let us live our lives in peace. His chaos has left us in a continual state of anxiety that metastasized into trauma. … We want that trauma to end. If Trump just retired to a quiet life at Mar-a-Lago and played golf every day for the rest of his life, we might not feel that justice was done, but at least we might be able to start feeling safe again. … I just want him to leave us the hell alone.

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Trump's treachery is what Republicans love about him

Stephen H. Provost

Trump’s recipe for ruling America was treachery and tyranny, but he marketed it as “patriotism,” and his embittered followers bought it like the latest iPhone or PlayStation.

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Lana Del Rey, Vogue, and how liberal shaming fuels Trumpism

Stephen H. Provost

If you’re struggling to make enough money to pay the rent and put food on the table, you probably don’t care about Kamala Harris’ photo or fashion magazines in general, and you may not care one way or another what Lana Del Rey thinks. To working-class people, criticisms like this appear to come from out-of-touch cultural snobs with too much time on their hands.

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We're not in a new civil war: It's the same lost cause

Stephen H. Provost

The insurrection at the Capitol was an act of war, at the direction of the second president of the Confederate States of America. That would be Donald John Trump. This isn’t another civil war. It’s the same one that supposedly ended 150 years ago.

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