(5) Mia Love

Love lost her race to unseat Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in 2012 by fewer than 800 votes, but like any up-and-coming prizefighter, she wants a rematch. For anyone not paying even a little attention during the last election, Love is the Haitian Mormon mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah; a mother of three; and the breakout star of the Republican National Convention last summer. National Republicans want to see Love succeed and have tapped her for Project GROW, the National Republican Congressional Committee’s effort to elect more women to the House. But Love, a pro-life, pro-gun fitness and running fanatic, is doing the legwork of the campaign herself, raising nearly $500,000 in the last three months alone.

(6) Erika Harold

If a former Miss America and Harvard-trained lawyer doesn’t get your attention, maybe the unmitigated crap this woman is taking from some of the men in her own party will reveal the tenacity she’s using to unseat a fellow Republican in Illinois’s 13th Congressional District. For having the gall—some would call it courage—to run against her party’s establishment, Harold, 33, has been called Miss Queen, “a love child,” and “a streetwalker” whose “pimps are the Democrats,” all by a local GOP chairman. A Weekly Standard article written to praise her for her very real political skills also noted with surprise that she “wasn’t beautiful,” and, “also, she was short.” Memo to Republicans: Just stop it. And let Harold help you help yourselves.