Ex-President Donald Trumps lies about election fraud did not just lead to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol meant to overturn a free and fair democratic election. His lies also led to a new wave of more than 250 voting restriction bills introduced by Republican governors and state legislators across the country that would make it harder to vote.

But almost all of these restrictive laws could be nullified if Congress passes Democrats top legislative priority: the For The People Act , a package of voting rights, campaign finance, election and ethics reforms.

The For The People Act would set national standards for voter registration, early voting, absentee or mail voting, election administration and provisional balloting while limiting voter roll purges and voter identification laws. If enacted, these new rules would ban almost all of the new voting restrictions that GOP lawmakers are looking to enact in the wake of Trumps reelection loss.

H.R. 1 would not negate every harm posed by these legislative assaults due to the delegation of power to the states with regards to election administration, Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and founder of voting rights nonprofit Fair Fight Action, said at a House committee hearing on the For The People Act on Thursday. However, the provisions of H.R. 1 create a uniform foundation for democracy in America that does not rely on geography.

The bill is assured to pass the House the week of March 1 as all 221 Democrats have stated their support. But it faces the prospect of a GOP filibuster led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who calls the bill socialism, and a power grab.

Democrats will need to find a way around, over or through this filibuster if they hope to quash the new wave of Trump lie-inspired voter restrictions designed to suppress the vote.

The attack on our democracy right now, in almost half of state legislative chambers around the country, if not dealt with as part of dealing with the fallout of the insurrection is something we will live with this for a long time in this country, Lauren Groh-Wargo, CEO of Fair Fight Action, said. This is not something that can wait.

New Wave Of Voter Restrictions

Republican lawmakers have introduced more than 250 new bills to limit voting, according to a study by the Brennan Center for Justice , a pro-voting rights nonprofit that supports the For The People Act. These bills would limit early, absentee and provisional voting, introduce new voter identification restrictions, expand voter roll purges and make it harder to register to vote.

Theres an explosion of Republican activity, governors and legislatures across the country, working to pass bills to keep people from voting, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a lead sponsor of the For The People Act, said. To me, this is entirely anti-democratic.

The biggest targets for these new voter restrictions are, unsurprisingly, the biggest targets of Trumps election fraud lies: Arizona and Georgia. Trump lost both states by a little more than 10,000 votes apiece and became the first Republican to lose both since George H.W. Bush in 1992. The response of Republicans in both states, where they occupy the governors office and hold majorities in the legislature, has been to push legislation to make it harder to vote.