Hunger is a shameful, nationwide problem that, for too long, has faced a fractured, incomplete response.

Yes, we have food banks and community-driven solutions. Yes, the government has taken action. But it's all been scattered and piecemeal, with huge cracks and no plan.

And into those cracks fall children and families – people who go to bed hungry and uncertain.

It stops now. This is the year we come together and, as one nation, figure out how to fix this.

Yesterday, the Women's Health Protection Act, which would – at last – protect abortion rights across the country failed in the Senate, essentially criminalizing abortion for millions of people.

Every Republican voted against it.

An overwhelming majority of Americans support Roe v. Wade. In a democracy, we elect officials to carry out the will of the people.

And in a democracy, when those officials ignore the unmistakable will of the people, we vote them out.

Nothing's 100% certain yet, but all indications suggest that the GOP has won a critical victory in their decades-long attack on reproductive rights.

POLITICO EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

Let's not mince words: Republican leadership has a regressive, radical, straight-from-A-Handmaid's-Tale vision for this country. And for nearly 50 years, they've willingly, sometimes eagerly, betrayed the trust of the American people in an effort to make that dystopian vision a reality.