Organization expands mission beyond 2025 tax fight to champion long-term economic populism and accountability via widely favorable tax reforms

[WASHINGTON, DC] — [February 18, 2026] — Fair Share America announced today it is now Families Over Billionaires, has launched a new federal political action committee, and has released new polling data that demonstrates strong public support across party lines for making billionaires and corporations pay their fair share in taxes in order to fund public priorities.

The moves signal the organization’s evolution from a coalition focused on the 2025 budget fight into a permanent national force for economic populism via fair taxes that unites working people – who Democrats have struggled to reach in recent years – in order to achieve real change.

“The fight for economic fairness intensified the moment the deeply unpopular OBBBA was signed into law,” said Kristen Crowell, Executive Director of Families Over Billionaires. “Our politics and our tax code have been hijacked by the billionaire class and the American public is demanding something different. We’re uniting people in this fight for a country where dignity and stability are within reach for every family—where everyone pays their fair share, and government answers to the people, not the wealthy few.”

“Across the political spectrum, Americans know they’re working harder but still not getting ahead – and they know the tax code was just rigged against them even more,” said former Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Jared Bernstein. “Renewal of the American Dream starts with a tax code that expands opportunity by stopping billionaires and big corporations from gaining at the expense of working Americans. This is the right message at the right moment.”

“I was proud to be part of last year’s effort to put the interests and needs of everyday families above the narrow self-interests of billionaires and corporations,” said Michael Linden, former director of the Families Over Billionaires campaign. “Fair Share America was one of our closest partners in that effort and I’m thrilled to see them continue that fight using the ‘Families Over Billionaires’ name.”

Our work focuses on three key goals:

1. Rewrite the tax code. Everyone pays their fair share. No loopholes. No special deals.
2. Boost public investment. Invest in people through programs like Medicaid, SNAP, public education, child care, and clean energy.
3. Hold elected leaders accountable. Make it clear that standing with billionaires at the expense of our families and communities comes with a cost.

New Polling Shows Bipartisan Demand for the Rich to Pay More in Taxes

“The American public has reached a consensus on the benefits of raising taxes on the rich

and big corporations.” – Polling Memo from GBAO

New survey data released today by Families Over Billionaires shows that bipartisan public support is at an all time high for making billionaires and corporations pay their fair share in taxes to invest in programs that help working families to live better lives. The poll was conducted by GBAO, January 29-February 5, 2026, and includes responses from 1,500 likely 2026 midterm general election voters nationwide:

• Billionaires, especially the billionaire class, are deeply unpopular (-59 percent for billionaires; -66 percent for the billionaire class).
• More than four in five midterm voters support higher corporate taxes with fewer loopholes. More than seven in ten favor making the wealthiest individuals pay more as well.
  • 67 percent of Trump’s voters support higher taxes on corporations.
  • 51 percent of Trump’s voters support raising taxes on the rich.
• Even after balanced arguments for and against higher taxes on the rich, over two in three voters still want them to pay more.
• A majority of likely voters have negative impressions (-52 percent) of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Among Independent voters, views are even more negative (-57 percent).

Launching the Stop the Billionaire Bailout PAC

The new Stop the Billionaire Bailout PAC is a federal political action committee dedicated to supporting candidates who fight for economic populism and holding accountable those who side with billionaires over working families.

“Sixty percent of voters say that they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who says

they would vote to raise taxes on billionaires,” according to polling from GBAO.

The PAC plans to raise $3 million this year to ensure that elected officials face real consequences for voting to cut programs that benefit families while handing tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans. It will support federal candidates who commit to rewriting the tax code so that the rich finally pay their fair share. Visit www.stopthebillionairebailout.com now.

Fair Share America Becomes Families Over Billionaires

Rebranding to Families Over Billionaires (FOB) unifies the organization’s identity around a clear mission: taking on the billionaire class and rewriting our tax laws so that working people can build good lives with dignity and stability.

In 2025, Fair Share America mobilized grassroots power across the country during the OBBBA fight, while the initial Families Over Billionaires campaign generated huge support in Washington to resist bad policy. Together we built a network spanning 42 states, partnered with more than 1,200 organizations, and directly engaged over half a million voters. The Stop the Billionaire Giveaway Bus Tour—a partnership with Unrig the Economy that traveled across 17 states—became one of the most visible demonstrations of resistance to the reconciliation bill. Now, as Families Over Billionaires, the organization builds on that momentum to champion a broader tax justice and public investment agenda.

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Families Over Billionaires is at the forefront of the fight to take on the billionaire class and rewrite our tax laws so that working people can build good lives with dignity and stability. Learn more on our website: www.familiesoverbillionaires.org.