State Leadership Initiative

Campaigning for a future where Red States are the driving force behind our nation's next Golden Age.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

The State Leadership Initiative is proud to present The State DOGE Playbook—a practical blueprint for bringing the proven efficiency, accountability, and results of Florida’s DOGE initiative and other like-minded efforts to every state that is serious about reforming government and delivering for its citizens.

SLI was honored to play a small supporting role in Florida DOGE’s efforts. We saw firsthand how a focused, first-principles team—armed with the right authority, data access, and relentless execution—can cut waste, expose fraud, and restore control to elected leaders. This document exists to carry that winning blueprint forward. It equips governors, legislators, and reform-minded executives with the exact legal vehicles, team structures, analytical methods, and implementation steps needed to stand up their own state DOGE and achieve similar victories.

At SLI, our mission is simple and uncompromising: we evangelize and actively support the implementation of serious, structural government reforms that dismantle the administrative state, eliminate sacred cows, and put quality governance back in the driver’s seat.

State-level DOGE efforts are proof that when conservatives stop managing decline and start executing with boldness, real transformation follows.

We built this playbook for you. Use it. Adapt it. Win with it.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

The 2nd order effects of stepping in and saving a city cannot be understated.

Who knew people will move to cities when crime is dealt with!

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

America's Most Dangerous City Sees Stunning 931% Surge In Millionaire Homeowners https://t.co/uFiVhDMwxI

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

On average across Red and blue states teachers are a MINORITY of K-12 staff...

[Reason Foundation @ReasonFdn]

From 2002 to 2023, public schools increased staff by 15.1 percent while student enrollment rose just 4 percent, writes @ASmithAZ.
https://t.co/ZrU3lWncaO

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

On this day we honor those who answered the call. Our home would not be here, our freedoms would not be secured, if not for our Veterans.

Happy Veterans day.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

This is why everything is so expensive. If you want to tackle affordability then stop subsidizing everything for everyone

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

The Agriculture Department is proposing to sharply restrict eligibility for federal food assistance, a change it estimates would cut millions of people from the program. https://t.co/eSnUhV6PSd

[U.S. Department of the Interior @Interior]

Happy 251st birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

The Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, depicts the iconic flag raising at Iwo Jima in 1945 and honors Marines who have given their lives defending our nation since 1775.

[Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett]

Blue states are fiscal disasters and their only plan is to loot productive Red America to subsidize themselves.

California owe $1,100 billion, ~$27,000 per person.

Illinois owes $404 billion, ~31,500 per person.

New York owes $745 billion, ~37,000 per person.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

Texas collected a $24,000,000,000 surplus in 2025 and instead of shrinking government and passing property tax relief they passed handouts for woke hollywood.

Now it's going to be drained for stimulus checks...

[‏ً @justjargons]

Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans have been hoarding so much money in the state’s Rainy Day Fund that our new Governor elect, Gina Hinojosa, is proposing to send $1,500 checks to every Texas household.

Your vote matters.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

Remember what radical DAs like Garza did when the state didn't step in.

Garza failed to prosecute 263 criminals while he had over a dozen indictments opened against Austin police officers.

People like him want to inflict pain.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

"At an Election Day watch party in a crowded East Austin bar, Travis County District Attorney José Garza watched as early results showed Gina Hinojosa pulling ahead of Gov. Greg Abbott. Through his black-rimmed glasses, he squinted at the TV and smiled. For Garza, Abbott’s defeat is personal: It could mean less state intervention in his office."

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

Anything you touch with a circuit board in it isn't made in America because we don't extract the minerals ourselves.

Incredible work brining American mining back!

[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

Utilizing data from @USGS, @BLMNational has introduced the Critical Minerals Screening Tool, an interactive, multi-layer map highlighting critical mineral deposits across the United States.

This innovative tool supports mineral development on public lands, strengthens domestic supply chains and helps advance our Energy and Mineral Dominance!

[Courage Is A Habit @CourageHabit]

Warning: A massive🧵explaining how red states turn blue.

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Every Indiana city that passed a school referendum turned blue after last Tuesday. All mid-to-wealthy suburbs.

(Indianapolis, obviously, is already a crime-ridden city under full Democrat control).

[American Ascent @AmAscent_]

POLITICO: “American Ascent promises to recruit and elect a new generation of young ‘America First’ candidates.”

Ending American Decline. Leading America’s Ascent.
https://t.co/kI9K5yJf57

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

The better question is how many received corporate welfare from Red states?

Hint: Almost all of them.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

LIST OF COMPANIES THAT INCREASED H-1B HIRING >50% LAST 12 MONTHS

Whoever thinks the immigration push went too far forgot to check legal immigration.

Of the 100 employers with the most new H-1B approvals in FY2026, 35 increased that hiring by 50% or more year over year.

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

ONSHORE AMERICA🇺🇸

20 years, America led the world in testing electronics. More devices were tested at labs located in the U.S. than in any other country. Indeed, over 30% of all electronics were tested here.

Then, the FCC and officials in Washington flung that entire industry—its jobs, its investments—to the far corners of the globe. Today, less than 4% of all electronics are tested at labs located in the U.S.

It gets worse. While the U.S. continued to allow into our country electronic devices tested at labs located in foreign nations, we stopped insisting on reciprocity or fair dealing. Flash forward to today, and over 80% of all electronics are tested in countries that refuse to allow into their country any device tested at a lab located in America. This is not consistent with basic notions of reciprocity or fair dealing. And this has been a bad deal for America, American workers, and U.S. industry.

The FCC has now voted to reverse this trend.

Going forward, our new rules will insist on reciprocity. Either test your devices at labs located in America or do so in a country that recognizes the work of U.S. labs.

A good and common sense win.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

Build more homes not apartments.

We need to facilitiate the American family again. Right now nearly 30% of a new home's price is nothing but regulatory compliance. Meanwhile lot size minimums have made it illegal to build starter homes for young families.

Red states need to get the government out of the way so Americans can have families again.

[TheMicahBeckwith @MicahBeckwith]

Hamilton County’s political shift over the past decade should be a wake-up call for Indiana.

We need to seriously rethink our approach to residential development. Instead of prioritizing massive apartment complexes and high-density housing, we should be encouraging single-family homeownership, strong neighborhoods, and communities where families can put down roots for generations.

Growth alone isn't success. The question is whether we're building communities that preserve the character, traditions, and values that have made Indiana such a great place to live.

Indiana shouldn't sacrifice its small-town identity and family-centered communities in the name of unchecked development.

Let's build more homes (not apartments), strengthen homeownership, and protect the Hoosier way of life! 🇺🇸

(Oh… and then DON’T TAX THE HOME!)

[Texans for Fiscal Responsibility @Texas_Taxpayers]

Election Day has come and gone, but fiscal responsibility doesn’t take the day off. We will continue holding lawmakers accountable and fighting for the interests of Texas taxpayers.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

Complacency kills.

[Policy Puppet @sock_puppet1787]

@RedStatesLead 2 things: 1) actually deliver for your voters, esp on economic issues 2) treat every election like you’re at least 10 points down. That’s the way to become midterm proof

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

Now is not the time to be complacent, no Red state is safe.

Merely being better than self destructive leftist policy is not good enough. Every Red governor left standing needs to understand that now is the time to deliver and anything short of that will be catastrophic.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

@Jaselton Frankly that's incredible.

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

When presented at face value conservative policy across the country won.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

BREAKING: Voters rejected $886 million in more money for the government schools in my district in San Antonio, Texas.

Prop A: 54.84% AGAINST
Prop B: 52.27% AGAINST
Prop C: 55.86% AGAINST
Prop D: 58.58% AGAINST

[State Leadership Initiative @RedStatesLead]

The new reality is that every Red state has a model to emulate to become effectively midterm proof.

It's ruthless competence.

[Congressman Greg Steube @RepGregSteube]

Much will be written about last night, but what is clear is that Florida has built a massive sea wall against the blue tsunami thanks to the conservative leadership of @RonDeSantis. All the statewide Rs won in one of the worse election cycles in history, thanks to a 1.5 million voter advantage built over the last 8 years of good conservative policy.