“If I was a rational person, I would have dropped out of this race a long time ago,” says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a newly released trailer for “Knock Down the House.” Fortunately for us, the Bronx-born bartender didn’t back down. She was one of 529 women to run for Congress in 2018 — her and three other women candidates’ stories are told in Rachel Lears’ Sundance-winning documentary.

“My mom cleaned houses growing up. I never really saw myself going into politics,” Ocasio-Cortez explains. She knows she’s in for a tough fight, and will be told she’s “small,” “young,” and “inexperienced.” But she’s determined to offer “everyday Americans” the chance to be represented by an everyday American like herself.

The spot also features footage of Amy Vilela, who was inspired to run because she “didn’t know what to do with the anger she felt about America’s broken health care system,” the film’s synopsis details. “Cori Bush, a registered nurse and pastor, was drawn to the streets when the police shooting of an unarmed black man brought protests and tanks into her neighborhood. A coal miner’s daughter, Paula Jean Swearengin was fed up with watching her friends and family suffer from the environmental effects of the coal industry.”

“Knock Down the House” took home the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary and the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance in January.

“After the 2016 election, I wanted to tell a big story about people changing American politics in big ways and about power — how it works and how to achieve it,” Lears told us. “I wanted to tell a story about people working to build solidarity across social divides, and about the intersections of economics and injustice based on race, gender, and other aspects of identity.”

You can catch “Knock Down the House” in select theaters and on Netflix May 1. Lears’ previous credits include “Netizens” and “The Hand That Feeds.”