Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became a game-changing congresswoman, she was a bartender fighting an uphill political battle after the election of Donald Trump. It’s all captured in the upcoming Netflix documentary Knock Down the House, directed by Rachel Lears. The film, which has a new trailer out today, follows four everyday women—A.O.C., Amy Vilela, Paula Jean Swearingen, and Cori Bush—who decided to get into politics ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, inspired to change their respective communities and fight against rising Trumpism.

The trailer opens with Ocasio-Cortez in an elevator, talking straight to camera. “If I was a rational person, I would have dropped out of this race a long time ago,” she says cheerfully, referring to her fight for New York’s 14th District against career politician Joe Crowley. (Ocasio-Cortez would go on to defeat him in the district’s Democratic primary.) The trailer offers tons of behind-the-scenes footage of her in action, hitting the pavement and passing out flyers. “He’s gonna tell me I’m small, that I’m young, that I’m inexperienced,” she says at another point, preparing herself for the fight ahead.

From there, the trailer also offers glimpses at Bush (a nurse in St. Louis), Swearingen (a West Virginia environmental activist), and Vilela (a Las Vegas businesswoman). Each woman shares the varied reasons they got into politics. For Bush, it was social activism. “I live six minutes from Ferguson,” she said, referring to the Missouri city that was home to numerous Black Lives Matter protests.

In an interview last June with Vanity Fair, Lears said she began working on the film the day after Trump’s election, communicating with organizations like Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats to find aspiring female politicians. She raised money for the project on Kickstarter, then debuted the final doc at this year‘s Sundance Film Festival, where it earned strong reviews. Of the four women, the New York-based Lears has the most footage of Ocasio-Cortez, witnessing firsthand how the congresswoman’s fame exploded overnight.

“I’ve heard multiple people say to her and to me that they haven’t been as excited about a candidate since Obama,” Lears said. “She was able to engage voters that have been neglected by the Democratic Party machine in New York City.”

Knock Down the House will debut on Netflix on May 1.

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