The billions of dollars now dominating our politics is not free speech; it is power. Every election in the past eight years has set new records for spending. Most of this money has come from less than 1 percent of Americans. Three billionaires alone spent $200 million in the 2016 election, and just 11 people have plowed $1 billion into super PACs in the past eight years. At the same time, corporations and big unions have invested more than a billion dollars in political races through front groups that conceal their donors — such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic Governors Association, and the Republican Governors Association.