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SPN is a Heritage Foundation spinoff with "Freedom Centers" in all 50 states pushing the same policy in the name of "small government" (universeodon.com)
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[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

If you don't want to click the links to the blog post with references explaining all of this

Here is the archived SPN page from 2015 discussing the history: https://web.archive.org/web/20150626172710/http://www.spn.org/about/

Here is a 2011 article discussing the "freedom centers": https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/state-policy-network-union-bargaining/

Here are the SPN affiliate pages for the Alabama and Louisiana think tanks pushing the state level DOGE policy and the SPN affiliate page for the Heritage Foundation:

Louisiana https://spn.org/organization/pelican-institute-for-public-policy/

Alabama https://spn.org/organization/alabama-policy-institute/

Heritage Foundation https://spn.org/organization/heritage-foundation/