28 Facts About Dana Loesch

Dana Lynn Loesch is an American radio and TV host.

Dana Loesch is a former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and a former writer and editor for Breitbart News.

Dana Loesch was raised by her mother, Gale, in an extended family of Southern Baptists.

Dana Loesch is of Irish descent through her paternal grandmother.

Dana Loesch graduated from Fox High School in Arnold, Missouri.

Dana Loesch later attended St Louis Community College at Meramec before transferring to Webster University to study journalism.

Loesch started hosting her radio show in 2008; it became a nationally syndicated, daily program, The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative, on Radio America from flagship station KFTK-FM in St Louis.

In July 2008, Dana Loesch was chosen as one of St Louis Business Journal top 30 Under 30.

Dana Loesch was recognized by the Nielsen ratings as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers.

In 2009, Dana Loesch co-founded the St Louis Tea Party along with its board president, Bill Hennessy, but left the organization in December 2011.

In October 2010, Dana Loesch was hired to be editor-in-chief of Big Journalism, a conservative website created by Andrew Breitbart.

In 2012, Dana Loesch was the recipient of Accuracy In Media's Grassroots Journalism award.

Dana Loesch guest hosted for other national radio hosts such as Glenn Beck and Michael Savage.

In 2012, Dana Loesch was added to Talkers Magazine top 100 "heavy hitters" and was number 24 in 2017.

Dana Loesch reached a non-monetary settlement with Breitbart in 2013.

In 2013, Dana Loesch hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Dana Loesch returned to the show in January 2014 after their producers, who were friends, arranged for Dana Loesch and Morgan to work out their differences amicably.

On January 10,2014, Loesch debuted her daily TV show, Dana, on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV.

However, according to The Atlantic, since Trump's election Dana Loesch became one of the Trump presidency's most visible "passionate defenders".

In 2013, Dana Loesch said on CNN she owned an AR-15, and when asked why, answered it was "a lot easier to fire".

Dana Loesch appeared in NRATV advertisements as early as September 2015; she held the post of special assistant to the executive vice president for public communication with the National Rifle Association from 2017 until June 2019.

Dana Loesch hosted The DL on NRA TV until the NRA ended production of the channel on June 25,2019, and she has featured prominently in other NRA-produced videos.

Dana Loesch was featured in an online video published by the National Rifle Association in April 2017.

Dana Loesch defended the ad, saying that it condemned rather than condoned violence.

Later that month Dana Loesch said the NRA bore no responsibility for curbing gun violence.

In December 2018, the NRA settled a lawsuit filed against them by the artist Anish Kapoor over the 2017 video "The Violence of Lies", starring Dana Loesch, by agreeing to remove an image of Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate from the film.

Dana Loesch subsequently lost her role as a paid spokesperson for the NRA.

In October 2022, Dana Loesch attracted press attention for a rally speech supporting Senate candidate Herschel Walker.