Dana Loesch

Born on September 28, 1978, Dana Loesch is an American radio and TV host from Missouri. Loesch attended St. Louis Community College at Meramec then transferred to Webster University to study journalism. Loesch began writing investigative news articles for St. Louis Magazine. She also had a website called "Mamalogues." From 2006-08, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran "Mamalogues" as a weekly online column. Loesch won Riverfront Times' "Best Newspaper Columnist St. Louis" in 2007. In 2008, Loesch started hosting her own radio show called "The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative." In 2009, Loesch co-founded the St. Louis Tea Party. In October 2010, Loesch was hired to be editor-in-chief of Big Journalism. In February 2011, CNN hired Loesch as a political analyst. In 2012, Loesch was the recipient of Accuracy In Media's Grassroots Journalism award. In 2013, Loesch hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). On January 10, 2014, Loesch debuted her daily TV show, "Dana," on TheBlaze TV. In April 2017, Loesch, a Second Amendment advocate, was featured in an online video published by the National Rifle Association. She is also an author. She has written "Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America," "Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been to" and "Grace Canceled." In October 2022, Dana Loesch attracted attention for a rally speech supporting Senate candidate Herschel Walker.