Dana Lynn Loesch (/læʃ/ LASH; née Eaton; born September 28, 1978) is an American conservative political activist and commentator. She is a talk radio host, author, and spokesperson for the National Rifle Association. She is a former writer and editor for Breitbart News and the host of the program Dana on TheBlaze TV 2014–2017. Loesch has appeared as a guest on television networks such as Fox News, CNN, CBS, ABC, and HBO.
Loesch was raised by her mother, Gale, in an extended family of Southern Baptists. She has said she had a Cherokee ancestor who was removed from their land on the Trail of Tears as well as a paternal grandmother of Irish descent. 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 on scholarship. 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 21. Loesch became disillusioned with Democratic politics after the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and fully rejected them after the September 11 attacks.