Tina Dupuy is the former communications director for Congressman

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, and has been a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist, freelance investigative journalist and comedian. She freelances for ''

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''. Her weekly op-ed column is nationally syndicated through Daryl Cagle's website ''Cagle Cartoons''. Dupuy's writing has also been published in books including a collection of short stories called ''What Was I Thinking?'' (St. Martin's Press, 2009) and the English textbook ''Exploring Language 13th Edition'' (Longman, 2011). After ''

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'' used an article of Dupuy's without paying for it in 2009, she created a

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video to shame the paper into paying $75 for the piece. As a teenager, Dupuy was convinced that she was an

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and joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and would eventually gain prominence for telling the story of her sobriety to AA audiences. Twenty years later, however, having drifted away from the organization, she began to question the interpretation she had been given of her life story, and decided the only way to know for sure whether she was an alcoholic was to have a drink and see what happened. She discussed the process that led to this conclusion in an interview for ''

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''. Dupuy has spoken openly about being born into the cult The Children of God and subsequently being raised in foster care in California. She created the podcast ''Cultish'', in which she interviewed former members of cults and discussed her uncle Rick Dupuy's public defection. In late 2017, Dupuy validated seven other female accusers which demonstrated a pattern of an abuse of power by the sitting U.S. Senator

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. Dupuy lives in Manhattan.Mentioned by her on Stephanie Miller's ''Happy Hour Podcast'' - https://www.stephaniemiller.com/stephanie-millers-happy-hour-01-09-2015/

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