At a time when our freedoms were under fire, Eric Schmitt and a small team at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office stood in the breach, fighting it out with the Left in the one place where truth still mattered: America’s courts.

It started with mask mandates. Then came the vaccine mandates. Then came wide open borders, the weaponization of government agencies, and a vast censorship enterprise that was created to crush dissent.

When Joe Biden took office, Eric Schmitt had been the attorney general of Missouri for just over two years, fighting crime and keeping the streets safe. As soon as he began seeing the outrageous overreaches of the Biden administration, he and his crack team of lawyers snapped into action, waging war on the Biden regime’s stunning attempts at government overreach. 

Now, in The Last Line of Defense Schmitt, a rising star in the GOP, takes readers behind the scenes of those battles for the first time. He describes how he and his team fought mask and vaccine mandates, battled illegal student loan forgiveness, and tried to hold back the tide of illegal immigration until conservatives could take back the White House. He also reveals how they uncovered and began to dismantle the Biden administration’s vast censorship enterprise, laying the groundwork for the Twitter Files and all that came after. Today, with President Trump back in power and the left fighting him every step of the way, it’s more important than ever to remember just how close we came to losing it all—and why we need to keep playing to win.