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.

Once again Florida is leading the way. Why isn't every Red state doing this?

All it takes is the will to act. Texas Comptroller Don Huffines BANNED all grants from being used for leftist DEI programs. Every Red state could do this TODAY.

Reindustrialization isn't just defense tech, it's every sector, every product, anything that you can hold in your hands.

Texans are being taxed out of their homes while the state collected a 24 billion dollar surplus last year. How about we cut taxes, spending, and the bureaucracy down and deliver on real conservative governance.

Texas is going to have air taxis before California lays down a single track of HSR.

Deindustrialization was a policy choice and the ramifications are an energy drought. Cut the red tape, build refineries, build power plants, built factories, build startups.

The affordability crisis has been manufactured by destructive leftwing policy.

This is a town in Georgia.

A positive vision is one that has MORE airports, MORE planes, where flying is so affordable every middle class family could do it as a hobby.

Once again Indiana is leading the way in education. They haven't raised tuition for 2 years and to achieve this they removed hundreds of wasteful and needless administrative positions!