Dana Loesch

About

Dana Lynn Loesch ( LASH; née Eaton; born September 28, 1978) is an American radio and TV host. She is a former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and a former writer and editor for Breitbart News. Loesch was the host of the program Dana on TheBlaze TV from 2014 to 2017. She also hosts a nationally syndicated weekday radio talk show. Loesch has appeared as a guest on television networks such as Fox News, CNN, CBS, Newsmax, ABC, and HBO.

Loesch was born in Hematite, Missouri and raised by her mother, Gale, in an extended family of Southern Baptists. She claims descent from Cherokees in Georgia, who she described were “moved on the Trail of Genocide” and later listed on the Dawes Rolls. She is also of Irish descent through her paternal grandmother. She graduated from Fox High School in Arnold, Missouri. She later attended St. Louis Community College at Meramec before transferring to Webster University to study journalism. While there, she was a Democrat and worked on Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign.
Following a pregnancy, Loesch dropped out of college and married, having her first child when she was 23. Loesch became disillusioned with the Democratic…