Heidi Ganahl turned tragedy into triumph. After being widowed at age 27, she founded Camp Bow Wow and built it into the world's largest pet care franchise. Currently the only Republican elected statewide, Heidi is a trailblazer who will be the first woman to serve as governor of Colorado if she wins her race on Tuesday.

Michelle Garcia Holmes has a solid background as a public servant. She is a veteran of the Albuquerque Police Department, where she worked in the units fighting crimes against children and sexual assault, and she is the former chief of staff to the New Mexico Attorney General's office. As the Republican nominee in New Mexico's 1st congressional district, she is working to revive the state's conservative values.

Esther Joy King spent her formative years as part of a missionary family serving along the U.S.-Mexico border in Juarez. This experience taught her the values of faith, family and sacrifice, lessons she later used during her military service in Afghanistan, as a JAG Corp reservist, and as a lawyer for the State of Illinois. 

If you are part of an active-duty military family, we want to sincerely thank you for your sacrifice and all this entails. If you play a support role to a military family, we want to thank you, too. You play a pivotal role in supporting your military family even if it is just a listening ear.

As an assistant public defender, Kathy Salvi got a firsthand look at our criminal justice system. She is running for the U.S. Senate because she believes Illinois families and businesses have been crippled by one-party rule and a lack of leadership.