What Is Dana Loesch Net Worth
Dana Loesch is a conservative political analyst, commentator, and host. She has a net worth of about $3 million.
Loesch hosts a nationally syndicated weekday radio show. From 2014 to 2017, she hosted Dana on TheBlaze TV. She was also a spokesperson for the NRA and worked with Breitbart News as a writer and editor.
While working for the NRA, Loesch earned $400,000 per year.
Early Life
Dana Lynn Loesch (LASH) was born on September 28, 1978. She is a radio and TV host in America. She used to work for the NRA and wrote for Breitbart News. From 2014 to 2017, she had a TV show called Dana on TheBlaze. She also has a radio talk show that plays across the country. Loesch has been on TV channels like Fox News, CNN, CBS, ABC, and HBO.
Dana grew up with her mom, Gale, in a Southern Baptist family. She says her family has Cherokee roots from Georgia and Irish roots from her dad’s side.
She went to Fox High School in Missouri. Later, she went to college at St. Louis Community College and then Webster University to study journalism. In college, she supported the Democratic Party and helped with Bill Clinton’s campaign.
Dana left college after she got pregnant and got married. She had her first baby when she was 23. After the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the 9/11 attacks, she stopped supporting the Democratic Party.
Professional Career
After leaving Webster University, Dana Loesch started writing for St. Louis Magazine. She also made a blog called “Mamalogues.” From 2006 to 2008, her blog became a weekly column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2007, she won an award for being the “Best Newspaper Columnist in St. Louis.”
In 2008, Dana started her radio show. It became a big, nationwide program called The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative. That year, she was picked as one of the St. Louis Business Journal’s “Top 30 Under 30.” She was also named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers.
In 2009, Dana helped create the St. Louis Tea Party but left in 2011. In 2010, she became the editor of a conservative website called Big Journalism. In 2011, CNN hired her as a political analyst for the 2012 elections. She won a journalism award that year and guest-hosted radio shows for Glenn Beck and Michael Savage.
In 2012, Dana was listed as one of the “Top 100 Heavy Hitters” in Talkers Magazine. She also hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2013.
In 2012, Dana supported U.S. Marines in a video where they were shown urinating on dead Taliban fighters. She said she would do the same and called them heroes.
Later in 2012, Dana sued Breitbart LLC, saying the company treated her unfairly. She settled the case in 2013 without money.
In 2013, Dana had an argument with Piers Morgan on Twitter about a British soldier’s murder. Piers banned her from his show but invited her back in 2014 after they made up.
On January 10, 2014, Dana started her TV show, Dana, on TheBlaze TV. She worked with people like Benjamin Howe and Brandon Morse. She left the show in 2017.
In 2016, Dana supported Ted Cruz for president and did not like Donald Trump. But after Trump became president, she supported him strongly.
That same year, Dana said mean things about the media, calling them “rat bastards” and saying she wanted them “curb stomped.” In 2018, after a mass shooting at a newspaper office, she explained she didn’t mean real violence, just that some stories should be stopped.
Personal life
In 2000, Dana Loesch married Chris Loesch. He is a music producer. Later, he became her manager. Dana and Chris homeschooled their two kids for eight years.
National Rifle Association
Dana Loesch has worked with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and often speaks about gun rights. She started appearing in NRA ads in 2015 and later became a spokesperson for them. From 2017 to 2019, she hosted a show called The DL on NRATV until the channel shut down.
In 2017, Dana was in an NRA video that upset many people because it seemed to criticize protesters and media outlets. Some thought the video was encouraging violence, but Dana said it wasn’t. She also made a strong video about The New York Times, saying the NRA would hold the newspaper accountable for its reporting, which some people found threatening.
Dana has made bold statements over the years. In 2018, at a big event, she accused the news media of focusing on mass shootings just to get more viewers. She also defended police actions in certain cases and made controversial comments about abortion during a campaign rally in 2022.
After leaving the NRA in 2019, Dana focused on her radio career. Her show became more popular in 2021 after Rush Limbaugh passed away. Dana is known for speaking her mind, even when it causes debate.