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She wasn't really around politics much for the 2018 cycle. After the 2016 cycle, she was very much sort of phased out and nobody really saw her much in 2018.
That's Justin, whom we heard from in previous episodes this season. He's a former political acquaintance of Stoner's who has followed her crimes and social media drama over the years.
But she did have a very big social media presence because that was the year of Me Too. And she was constantly tweeting about how she was a sexual assault victim and how she had been assaulted by a very powerful man in the state of Indiana. And she made that very clear.
And she would often interact with women on social media as like a sister survivor and made that a very big part of her personality. That had already happened by the time I met her. But again, after Me Too sort of cycled out of the news, Megan very quickly kind of dropped that. I did not know at the time who she was referring to.
Just knowing of her and knowing about her, I always suspected it was not true. I couldn't imagine anyone would have done that to her just because, frankly, she was never important enough to have been alone in the room with a powerful man.
Like, she was a very grassroots-level volunteer who would come in and out, but I didn't think that was plausible, but she did make a very big deal of it on social media. Then she got very into her religion and churches, specifically the iTown Mega Church, which is a very large network of mega churches. They have a couple of campuses around the Indianapolis area.
And she went to, I think, their main campus, which is in Fishers, which is close to where she lived. And she very quickly gets in this big pissing match with the church. And it sort of triggered this year-long feud that she had online. Fast forward, so now we're into 2019. She gets involved with Hightown.
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