class wfJWT { private $claims; const JWT_TTL = 600; const ISSUER = 600; public static function extractTokenContents($token) { if (!is_string($token)) { throw new InvalidArgumentException('Token is not a string. ' . gettype($token) . ' given.'); } // Verify the token matches the JWT format. if (!preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+?\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+?\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+?$/', $token)) { throw new wfJWTException('Invalid token format.'); } list($header, $body, $signature) = explode('.', $token); // Test that the token is valid and not expired. $decodedHeader = base64_decode($header); if (!(is_string($decodedHeader) && $decodedHeader)) { throw new wfJWTException('Token header is invalid.'); } $header = json_decode($decodedHeader, true); if (!is_array($header)) { throw new wfJWTException('Token header is invalid.'); } $decodedBody = base64_decode($body); if (!(is_string($decodedBody) && $decodedBody)) { throw new wfJWTException('Token body is invalid.'); } $body = json_decode($decodedBody, true); if (!is_array($body)) { throw new wfJWTException('Token body is invalid.'); } return array( 'header' => $header, 'body' => $body, 'signature' => $signature, ); } /** * @param mixed $subject */ public function __construct($subject = null) { $this->claims = $this->getClaimDefaults(); $this->claims['sub'] = $subject; } /** * @return string */ public function encode() { $header = $this->encodeString($this->buildHeader()); $body = $this->encodeString($this->buildBody()); return sprintf('%s.%s.%s', $header, $body, $this->encodeString($this->sign(sprintf('%s.%s', $header, $body)))); } /** * @param string $token * @return array * @throws wfJWTException|InvalidArgumentException */ public function decode($token) { if (!is_string($token)) { throw new InvalidArgumentException('Token is not a string. ' . gettype($token) . ' given.'); } // Verify the token matches the JWT format. if (!preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+?\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+?\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+?$/', $token)) { throw new wfJWTException('Invalid token format.'); } list($header, $body, $signature) = explode('.', $token); // Verify signature matches the supplied payload. if (!$this->verifySignature($this->decodeString($signature), sprintf('%s.%s', $header, $body))) { throw new wfJWTException('Invalid signature.'); } // Test that the token is valid and not expired. $decodedHeader = base64_decode($header); if (!(is_string($decodedHeader) && $decodedHeader)) { throw new wfJWTException('Token header is invalid.'); } $header = json_decode($decodedHeader, true); if (!( is_array($header) && array_key_exists('alg', $header) && $header['alg'] === 'HS256' && $header['typ'] === 'JWT' )) { throw new wfJWTException('Token header is invalid.'); } $decodedBody = base64_decode($body); if (!(is_string($decodedBody) && $decodedBody)) { throw new wfJWTException('Token body is invalid.'); } $body = json_decode($decodedBody, true); if (!( is_array($body) && // Check the token not before now timestamp. array_key_exists('nbf', $body) && is_numeric($body['nbf']) && $body['nbf'] <= time() && // Check the token is not expired. array_key_exists('exp', $body) && is_numeric($body['exp']) && $body['exp'] >= time() && // Check the issuer and audience is ours. $body['iss'] === 'Wordfence ' . WORDFENCE_VERSION && $body['aud'] === 'Wordfence Central' )) { throw new wfJWTException('Token is invalid or expired.'); } return array( 'header' => $header, 'body' => $body, ); } /** * @param string $string * @return string */ public function sign($string) { $salt = wp_salt('auth'); return hash_hmac('sha256', $string, $salt, true); } /** * @param string $signature * @param string $message * @return bool */ public function verifySignature($signature, $message) { return hash_equals($this->sign($message), $signature); } /** * @return string */ public function __toString() { return $this->encode(); } /** * @param string $data * @return string */ public function encodeString($data) { return rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($data), '+/', '-_'), '='); } /** * @param string $data * @return bool|string */ public function decodeString($data) { return base64_decode(strtr($data, '-_', '+/')); } /** * @return mixed|string */ protected function buildHeader() { return '{"alg":"HS256","typ":"JWT"}'; } /** * @return mixed|string */ protected function buildBody() { return json_encode($this->getClaims()); } /** * @return array */ protected function getClaimDefaults() { $now = time(); return array( 'iss' => 'Wordfence ' . WORDFENCE_VERSION, 'aud' => 'Wordfence Central', 'nbf' => $now, 'iat' => $now, 'exp' => $now + self::JWT_TTL, ); } /** * @param array $claims */ public function addClaims($claims) { if (!is_array($claims)) { throw new InvalidArgumentException(__METHOD__ . ' expects argument 1 to be array.'); } $this->setClaims(array_merge($this->getClaims(), $claims)); } /** * @return array */ public function getClaims() { return $this->claims; } /** * @param array $claims */ public function setClaims($claims) { $this->claims = $claims; } } class wfJWTException extends Exception { } Latest News – Right Tactics https://right-tactics.com Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:03:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Jack Smith Moves To Dismiss 1/6 Charges Against Trump https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/25/jack-smith-moves-to-dismiss-1-6-charges-against-trump/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/25/jack-smith-moves-to-dismiss-1-6-charges-against-trump/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:03:40 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/25/jack-smith-moves-to-dismiss-1-6-charges-against-trump/

Because of the DOJ policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, Special Counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss the case against Trump.

From Smith’s filing:
As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant, Donald J. Trump , will be inaugurated as President on January 20, 2025. It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President. But the Department and the country have never faced the circumstance here, where a federal indictment against a private citizen has been returned by a grand jury and a criminal prosecution is already underway when the defendant is elected President.

Confronted with this unprecedented situation, the Special Counsel’s Office consulted with the Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), whose interpretation of constitutional questions such as those raised here is binding on Department prosecutors. After careful consideration, the Department has determined that OLC’s prior opinions concerning the Constitution’s prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.

This is the expected outcome. Trump is an example of what money and political power can do to the justice system. All of those lawyers who populated cable news and social media who professed that the rule of law would take care of Trump and justice would be done, were 100% wrong.

Their faith in the rule of law was religious-like and misguided.

The rule of law bends to money and power, and the court cases against Trump were bound to wither away as soon as it was clear that he would be the nominee. When the Republican Party ignored the rule of law, the door was open for Trump to skate on all charges, and now that a president essentially has immunity from everything, the country will never be in this situation again.

Trump not only got away with it, but he changed presidential immunity forever.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/25/jack-smith-moves-to-dismiss-1-6-charges-against-trump/feed/ 0 Tammy Duckworth Explains How Pete Hegseth Would Weaken The US Military https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/24/tammy-duckworth-explains-how-pete-hegseth-would-weaken-the-us-military/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/24/tammy-duckworth-explains-how-pete-hegseth-would-weaken-the-us-military/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:10:58 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/24/tammy-duckworth-explains-how-pete-hegseth-would-weaken-the-us-military/

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) explained the vital role that women play in combat and how Trump’s defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth would weaken the US.

Duckworth who is a combat veteran who lost both of her legs in combat, said on CNN:

He’s wrong, because the women have made us more effective. In fact, our military could not go to war without its 223, 000 women who serve in uniform.

We would have an ineffective military. A military that was not capable of deployment. If we were to pull out all the women and say, you cannot be in combat for those women who are in roles such as the infantry or Navy seals. Those women have met the same standards as the men in order to be assigned to those positions.

So again, this shows that Mr. Hegseth is not qualified for the position because he doesn’t understand. Apparently, even after having served that women are actually vitally important. To an effective military. And with the recruiting challenges we’re having right now, if we were to pull all those women out and say, you can’t go into combat we would say, face a severe personnel crisis in the military.

Video:

Duckworth is right. The military is already facing a recruiting crisis, and Hegseth’s backward and sexist ideas will only make things worse. Sen. Duckworth sacrificed herself for our nation in Iraq, and for women like her to be told that they are unfit for combat is the ultimate insult.

In the bigger picture, Hegseth’s views are an example of how Trump’s dream is to take the country back to a time when white men dominated the nation. From deporting immigrants to destroying the rights of women, the United States is going to have to fight against antiquated ideas of racism and sexism that many hoped were buried in the past.

Hegseth, the alleged sexual assaulter, is the exact wrong person to lead the military.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/24/tammy-duckworth-explains-how-pete-hegseth-would-weaken-the-us-military/feed/ 0 Democratic Majority Polling Places Being Threatened In Georgia https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democratic-majority-polling-places-being-threatened-in-georgia/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democratic-majority-polling-places-being-threatened-in-georgia/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:34:37 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democratic-majority-polling-places-being-threatened-in-georgia/




Last updated on November 11th, 2024 at 01:38 pm

Gwinett County elections director Zach Manifold said that there have been threats to polling places in his county,  Fulton County has also been threatened.

Video:

 

Manifold said, “We have had one incident, just recently. I don’t have additional information yet. I will share it when we get it. But we have had one incident, just recently.”

There has also been a precinct evacuated that as of the time of the interview remained evacuated. There have also been two non-credible bomb threats to Fulton County, GA. Joe Biden won both Gwinett and Fulton Counties in 2020 as part of his narrow flipping of Georgia from red to blue.

The fact that counties with large numbers of Democratic voters have been targeted with threats suggests that this might be the work of some Trump supporters who are trying to hold down the vote in Georgia to help Donald Trump.

The state of Georgia is on pace for a record setting election where five million votes are going to be cast with 1.2 million being cast on election day.

If Donald Trump loses Georgia, it could make it very difficult for him to win the presidency. His supporters seem to know this, which leads to suspicion that the threats are coming from those who want to see fewer Democrats cast their ballots.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democratic-majority-polling-places-being-threatened-in-georgia/feed/ 0 Nevada Is Seeing Extremely High Youth Turnout https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/nevada-is-seeing-extremely-high-youth-turnout/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/nevada-is-seeing-extremely-high-youth-turnout/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:31:12 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/nevada-is-seeing-extremely-high-youth-turnout/




Last updated on November 12th, 2024 at 04:16 pm

Young people are coming out to vote in Nevada to such a large degree that it is slowing ballot casting down in the state.

Video of Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar on CNN:

Aguilar said when asked about delays in the process for curing the ballots, “We’re experiencing a little bit of an issue with it now, given that we’re seeing high engagement and turnout amongst our youth. And this is probably the first time they’ve had to use an official signature. What’s on their driver’s license, their voter registration form, and on their ballot is a little bit different, so we’re trying to work with them to drive up the curing process.”

The Secretary of State buried the lede. He is probably most concerned with having a smooth election, but the idea that youth turnout is so high that it is slowing the ballot curing process is very important.

Since young voters overwhelmingly support Democrats, high youth turnout in Nevada could be even more bad news for Republicans on a day when there is already a sense of panic growing around the GOP as more Democrats than they expected are voting on election day and Republicans aren’t getting the turnout that they anticipated so far.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/nevada-is-seeing-extremely-high-youth-turnout/feed/ 0 Abortion Measure Loses In Florida After Getting 1 Million More Votes Than Ron DeSantis https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/abortion-measure-loses-in-florida-after-getting-1-million-more-votes-than-ron-desantis/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/abortion-measure-loses-in-florida-after-getting-1-million-more-votes-than-ron-desantis/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:29:08 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/abortion-measure-loses-in-florida-after-getting-1-million-more-votes-than-ron-desantis/




Last updated on November 13th, 2024 at 02:10 pm

Republicans showed what the undercutting of democracy looks like in Florida after a measure to make abortion a constitutional right in Florida despite getting 1 million more votes than Ron DeSantis.

Adam Smith posted:

The amendment lost because the gerrymandered Florida legislature put a 60% threshold on passage. The measure received 57% support and passed overwhelmingly, but it means nothing, because DeSantis has tied his legacy and political future to banning abortion.

What happened in Florida was example of what happens when Republicans gut democracy and send the message that the will of the people does not matter.

DeSantis wants to use Florida as an example of what Republican governance for the entire country, and what that governance looks like individual rights will get trampled and if it looks like the will of the people will triumph, the government will rig the game against fundamental rights.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/abortion-measure-loses-in-florida-after-getting-1-million-more-votes-than-ron-desantis/feed/ 0 Democrats Have A Path To Power Against Trump On Government Funding https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democrats-have-a-path-to-power-against-trump-on-government-funding/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democrats-have-a-path-to-power-against-trump-on-government-funding/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:25:49 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democrats-have-a-path-to-power-against-trump-on-government-funding/




Last updated on November 13th, 2024 at 05:08 pm

Republicans may end up with majorities in Congress, but Donald Trump will not have an easy path to funding his priorities due to Democrats in Congress.

The Washington Post reported:
Even if Republicans control both houses of Congress, Democrats could still play a large role in funding legislation at the start of Trump’s presidency. The GOP’s already narrow House majority — which has made it difficult to pass multiple conservative spending bills — could be even smaller when vote counts are finalized, and Republicans won’t have enough Senate seats to dodge a filibuster.

“As I’ve said time and again, in both the majority and the minority, the only way to get things done in the Senate is through bipartisan legislation while maintaining our principles — and the next two years will be no different,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said in a statement.

The American people are going to see administrative corruption like they have never witnessed before thanks to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, but just because Republicans may end up with House and Senate majorities does not mean that Trump will get anything and everything that he wants.

Democrats have shown over the years that they are very effective at operating from the minority position.

Trump will still be able to accomplish a lot, especially in the areas of immigration and tax cuts for the rich, but anything that needs congressional approval could be a slog for Trump and his allies.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/democrats-have-a-path-to-power-against-trump-on-government-funding/feed/ 0 Trump Expected To Make It Harder For Workers To Get Overtime Pay And Benefits https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/trump-expected-to-make-it-harder-for-workers-to-get-overtime-pay-and-benefits/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/trump-expected-to-make-it-harder-for-workers-to-get-overtime-pay-and-benefits/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:23:47 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/trump-expected-to-make-it-harder-for-workers-to-get-overtime-pay-and-benefits/

Last updated on November 14th, 2024 at 03:00 pm

The incoming Trump administration is expected to change rules and make it more difficult for workers to receive overtime pay and benefits.

The New York Times reported:

“There will be a concerted effort to repeal pro-worker N.L.R.B. precedents,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior Labor Department official during the Obama administration, referring to the National Labor Relations Board.

Experts like Ms. Shierholz, who is now president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said they also expected the Trump administration to ease up on enforcing safety rules, to narrow eligibility for overtime pay and to make it harder for gig workers to gain status as employees.

The reason why blue-collar workers should never vote for Trump can be seen in his first-term record on labor.

Trump Is An Extremely Anti-Worker President

As I wrote in our newsletter The Daily:

Donald Trump rolled back the Obama administration’s overtime rules and made 8.2 million workers ineligible for overtime pay. Trump stacked the National Labor Relations Board with people hostile to collective bargaining who then issued a series of rules that made it more difficult for workers to organize.

Trump used his presidency to make sure that workers were paid less and faced more hurdles to organizing, but if there is one action that stands out above all of the others, it is how Trump tried to change tipping.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, “One of the Trump DOL’s most egregious rulemakings was the proposed “tip stealing” rule, which would allow employers to pocket the tips of their employees, as long as workers are paid the minimum wage. EPI’s estimates showed that, if finalized, the rule would have resulted in $5.8 billion in lost wages of tipped workers each year. However, before the rule was finalized, reports found that the Secretary of Labor went to great lengths to hide DOL’s economic analysis that showed the rule would have been costly to workers. In the wake of this news, Congress added a section to the Fair Labor Standards Act that prohibits employers from keeping tips received by employees, ultimately making the proposed rule invalid.”

When Trump promised not to tax overtime pay, he left out a key detail. He is going to make it impossible for many workers to earn overtime pay, so it doesn’t matter if it’s not taxed. Millions of workers won’t be getting it.

Workers had a great for years under Joe Biden, but all of that progress will be erased once Trump takes office.

Trump is the most hostile president toward workers in a century, and yet some people didn’t seem to know what they were voting for and sent him back to the White House.

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It will take months for Republicans to fill the House seats that will be left open by Trump choosing some GOP House members for his administration, which will make Speaker Mike Johnson’s majority even smaller.

Politico reported:

GOP leadership will likely already have a tough time navigating a slim majority, both during major policy fights and the speaker election. And unlike the Senate, House members can’t get quickly reappointed replacements; leaders will have to wait to have those spots filled via special elections, which typically take months.

…

“He can’t pick many more. Our majority is way too thin,” said a House Republican, granted anonymity to speak frankly.

Trump has already picked Reps. Stefanik and Waltz for spots in his new administration. House Republicans will be waiting for months for those seats to be filled due to the slow pace of special  elections. The Republican House majority could be even smaller than it was in the last Congress, which will make getting anything done virtually impossible. In an ideal world, Trump would have chosen no House Republicans to serve in his administration.

It is more than two months before Trump takes office, and there are already potential landmines forming that could make everything far from smooth sailing for Republicans.

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/23/trump-has-already-created-a-problem-for-mike-johnson-in-the-house/feed/ 0 Trump’s Immigration Plan To Kill Jobs And Raise Prices https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/trumps-immigration-plan-to-kill-jobs-and-raise-prices/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/trumps-immigration-plan-to-kill-jobs-and-raise-prices/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:12:21 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/trumps-immigration-plan-to-kill-jobs-and-raise-prices/

Last updated on November 15th, 2024 at 03:43 pm

Economists are warning that Trump’s mass deportation plan will kill American jobs and raise prices.

The New York Times reported:

There are logistical, legal, diplomatic and — even though Mr. Trump has said there is “no price tag” he wouldn’t direct the government to pay — fiscal obstacles to expelling millions of people who would rather stay. (According to the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants, it would cost $315 billion to arrest, detain, and deport all 13.3 million living in the United States illegally or under a revocable temporary status.)

That’s why forecasting a precise impact is impossible at this point. But if Mr. Trump accomplishes anything close to what he has pledged, many economists expect higher prices on goods and services and possibly lower employment rates for American workers.

“That gargantuan shock will cost trillions of dollars in economic growth, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs held by U.S. natives,” said Michael Clemens, an economics professor at George Mason University who focuses on migration. “It will quickly raise inflation, by reducing the capacity of U.S. firms to supply goods and services faster than it reduces demand.”

There is a recent history to go by when trying to calculate the impact of Trump’s immigration policies.

The last time Trump restricted immigration, the result was a shortage of farming and meat packing workers, to name two sectors that led to higher prices for American consumers. The number of immigrants who have committed crimes is very small in comparison to Trump’s deportation promises, but what is clear to economists is that removing millions of immigrant workers from the US economy will have drastic consequences.

Many voters cast their votes for Trump expecting that he would lower prices. Instead, the Trump agenda is looking like a recession’s best friend.

Trump looks ready to kill jobs and raise prices because he thinks that immigrants have to leave the country.

Buckle up America because things are about to get bumpy.

 

 

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]]> https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/trumps-immigration-plan-to-kill-jobs-and-raise-prices/feed/ 0 Bernie Sanders To Stay In Top Senate Post To Protect Social Security And Medicare https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/bernie-sanders-to-stay-in-top-senate-post-to-protect-social-security-and-medicare/ https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/bernie-sanders-to-stay-in-top-senate-post-to-protect-social-security-and-medicare/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:09:33 +0000 https://right-tactics.com/2024/11/22/bernie-sanders-to-stay-in-top-senate-post-to-protect-social-security-and-medicare/




Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he will be staying as the ranking member on the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee where his top priority will be protecting Social Security and Medicare.

The statement from Sen. Sanders:

Sanders will remain on the HELP Committee and he will have a seat on the Senate Finance Committee. Bernie Sanders has been a fierce fighter in the Senate for improving healthcare, saving pensions, and protecting Social Security and Medicare.

The incoming Trump administration and congressional Republicans are targeting cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and changes to Social Security for future generations as a way to pay for their planned tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

Democrats are going to need all of their most experienced advocates in key positions, because it is going to be a battle. Since Republicans took back the House in 2022, they have had their eyes on slashing the beloved programs.

Sen. Sanders is a the sort of powerful advocate that Democrats will need to turn back the threat.

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