Mark Alexander Ismail

Parental separation

No parent should be erased from a child’s life without real due process, clear evidence, and a transparent path to reunification. Family separation should never become indefinite.

Fathers’ rights

Fathers are not optional. A loving father should not be treated like a visitor in his own child’s life. Government should protect children’s relationships with both parents whenever safely possible.

Forcing gender identity change on children

Children should not be pushed, pressured, or manipulated into life-changing gender identity decisions behind a parent’s back or against a parent’s rights. I have no problem with adults making their own choices, but forcing gender identity change on children, weaponizing mental health, weaponizing CPS workers, or using therapists and institutions to influence vulnerable children is wrong. Parents must have the right to protect, guide, and raise their own children without government systems interfering in deeply personal family decisions.

Mental health should heal children, not weaponize them

Mental health problems among children have exploded in recent years, and parents deserve to ask why. Mental health care should help children heal, not become a tool used to separate families, push political agendas, pressure vulnerable children into life-changing identity decisions, or label children in ways that benefit systems instead of helping families. Parents deserve full transparency when psychiatric hospitalization, medication, therapy, behavioral labeling, or IEP decisions involving their children are being made.

Public school transparency and parental rights

Public school is where my family’s pain began. As a father, I trusted the public school system to do what was best for children. I donated over $20,000 to Hoben Elementary School because I believed in supporting our children and our community. Instead, I watched parents lose their voice while schools, behavioral systems, and outside influences became more powerful than the family itself. Parents should never be pushed aside when it comes to major decisions affecting their children’s education, mental health, identity, or future. I believe schools should educate children, not pressure families, divide parents from their children, or create systems where children’s struggles become financial opportunities through labels, programs, or bureaucracy. That is why I am running, to restore transparency, accountability, parental involvement, and trust in education again.

Law enforcement accountability

The problem is not only bad police officers. I met good officers at the local police department, the sheriff’s department, and even higher levels of law enforcement. The real problem is that too many of them are trapped inside a system where they cannot challenge powerful people above them, even when something feels wrong. A local detective cannot investigate a powerful government official, a politically connected figure, or someone higher in the chain of command without risking their own career. That creates a dangerous system where people follow orders instead of defending constitutional rights, reviewing evidence honestly, or protecting families. Public trust disappears when law enforcement becomes afraid to stand up to power instead of standing up for the people.

Government weaponization against families

Government weaponization is when you realize you no longer have rights, no longer have due process, and no longer have anywhere to turn for help. You go to local police, shut down. You go to the sheriff’s department, shut down. You go to state police, shut down. You hire attorneys, most are too afraid to help. You go to judges asking for fairness and due process, shut down. You go to politicians asking them to stand up for children and families, silence. That is government weaponization, when systems stop protecting citizens and start protecting themselves.

I lived it. My daughter lived it. An 11-year-old child lived it. The system that was created to protect children became weaponized against children and families instead. That is why I am running for Congress in Michigan’s 6th District. Because silence has become dangerous, and when good people stay silent, children pay the price. Silence spreads like a cancer.