From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Sugar Daddy Super PACs and the road to the White House.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans count about most.

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken the lid off political spending,

so presidential candidates are lining up billionaires to finance next year's campaigns.

It's not just the South Carolina and New Hampshire primaries anymore.

There's the Adelson primary and the Coke primary,

facetiously named for Republican mega donors.

Hillary Clinton is cozying up to super-rich Democrats.

That's getting enormous power to a Florida car dealer, a New York hedge fund manager, and others.

What do they want?

What will they get for their money?

Today's talking point are murdered bloggers in Bangladesh, part of a free speech

crisis worldwide. First, here's the news. Listen to KCRW's 24-hour all-news channel, stream BBC

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Program Fund. Hello again, Warren. I'll knee back with To the Point. With campaign spending

limits almost a thing of the past, candidates for the White House are lining up billionaires, giving up very few people unprecedented political power. Who are they? Is their influence a threat to democracy? Today's talking point, three secular or atheist bloggers have been murdered in Bangladesh, a majority Muslim country. Sounds like it's far away, but the incidents are being seen as part of a worldwide pattern

of attacks on free speech.

First is news update.

A black box has been recovered from last night's Amtrak derailment in North Philadelphia,

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