Dana Lynn Loesch (/læʃ/ LASH; née Eaton; born September 28, 1978)[1][2] is an American radio and TV host.

[14] In 2009, Loesch co-founded the St. Louis Tea Party along with its board president, Bill Hennessy,[15] but left the organization in December 2011.

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

[21] In January 2012, Loesch spoke on her show in defense of U.S. Marines videotaped urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters, commenting that "I'd drop trou and do it, too.

Loesch claimed in court documents that owner and operator Breitbart LLC bound her to "what amounts to indentured servitude in limbo" after she said she was forced to terminate her contract as the result of a hostile working environment.

"[37] When the videos resurfaced after a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland in 2018, Loesch said she had meant she wanted some news stories to be curb-stomped and was not encouraging violence against journalists.

[39] Loesch appeared in NRATV advertisements (Moms like me) as early as September 2015;[40] she held the post of special assistant to the executive vice president for public communication with the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 2017 until June 2019.

Statements made by Loesch in advocacy for the NRA have stirred controversy, and she has received death threats as a result.

And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance ... To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding – until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness ...

[45] DeRay Mckesson, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, said that the ad was "an open call to violence to protect white supremacy".

"[46] In a second video released by the NRA in April 2017, Loesch criticized The New York Times, calling it an "old gray hag" and an "untrustworthy, dishonest rag that has subsisted on the welfare of mediocrity."

She stated, "We've had it with your constant protection of your Democrat overlords, your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life."

"[50] Press group Digital Content Next wrote a letter to Loesch in which it said, "Ninety-nine people out of a hundred would interpret this language about 'coming for' as threatening and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst.

"[50] In October 2017, Loesch spoke in another video for the NRA, saying, "We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president and the people who voted for him, and the free system that allowed it to happen, in American history.

"[51] In February 2018, Loesch said at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, "Many in legacy media love mass shootings.

She criticized the FBI's response to warnings in advance of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and said that the institution had become politicized.

[54] In March 2018, Loesch appeared in an NRA video in which she turned an hourglass and said to celebrities, politicians, and media figures, "Your time is running out.

[citation needed] Following the August 8, 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Loesch appeared as a guest on FOX News, where she characterized the search of the Florida residence of Donald Trump as "stunts", "nothing more than Democrats trying to settle political scores", and stated that [President] "Biden's too much of an embarrassment" to stand for the Democratic Party in the 2024 United States elections.

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

Walker denied the allegation, which had not been independently verified by other publications at the time of Loesch's speech, and announced plans for a lawsuit.

[62] Loesch's speech included the statements "I don't care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles.