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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/