Anna Paulina Luna has attacked Elizabeth Warren for claiming Native American heritage. It turns out she used to claim it too.
On September 22, 2026, MeidasTouch reported that the Florida congresswoman once described herself as "Native American" in her Twitter bio — and then deleted it. We checked the archived pages ourselves. The story holds up.
What her profile said
On November 23, 2018, the Internet Archive captured Luna's Twitter profile. Her bio read:
"Constitutionalist. USAF Veteran. Mexican & Native American. 100% Patriot."
The same words were still there on January 13, 2019. The November 2018 version also listed her job: director of Hispanic engagement at Turning Point USA.
That December, in an interview, a host put the bio on screen and told her, "You are a Mexican American as well as American Indian." According to MeidasTouch, Luna nodded along.
By March 2019, "Native American" was gone. The bio now read "Constitutionalist. USAF Veteran. #LATINA."
No explanation. No correction. It just disappeared.
Warren, though
Here's why it matters. Luna has said the Massachusetts senator "lied about being 'American Indian,'" as MeidasTouch noted.
Warren at least released a DNA test and apologized. Luna has said she took a DNA test too. She has never released the results.
The public record doesn't show any tribal membership for Luna, and it doesn't show why she dropped the words. What it does show is a politician who put "Native American" in her public bio, removed it without a word, and then called someone else a liar for the same thing.
Not the first time her story has changed
This isn't the first time Luna's life story hasn't matched the record.
In February 2023, the Washington Post reported that Luna had claimed Jewish heritage — telling Jewish Insider she was raised as a Messianic Jew by her father. Her father's relatives told the Post the family was Catholic, and that her paternal grandfather had served in the Nazi army in Germany as a young man.
The Post also reported that Luna had, at one time, described herself as Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European — and that relatives disputed her story of being raised alone with no family to rely on. For most of her life she went by Mayerhofer, her father's surname; in 2015 she filed to change it to Luna, her mother's family name.
People are allowed to learn about their family and change how they describe themselves. But a member of Congress who has worn at least four different heritages in public — and who calls a Democrat a liar for claiming one of them — owes her voters a straight answer about which ones are true.
A pattern of saying things that aren't so
Luna's record on this site is full of claims that don't survive a fact-check. She compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, and she used Congress's first MKUltra hearing in decades to push conspiracy theories. The bio edit fits right in.
The facts, in short
In late 2018 and January 2019, Anna Paulina Luna's public Twitter bio described her as "Mexican & Native American." By March 2019 the words were gone, with no explanation, and she has never released the DNA test she says she took. She has accused Elizabeth Warren of lying about being "American Indian."
Source
Anna Paulina Luna Removed 'Native American' Claim From Her Bio — MeidasTouch, September 22, 2026 (also on Yahoo News). Archived bios via the Internet Archive. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
