Oct 13, 2026 · 59 min · 18 segments
Lt. Col. Doc Pete Chambers — retired Green Beret, Special Operations Flight Surgeon, and DOD whistleblower who finished 2nd against Greg Abbott in the Texas GOP primary — joins The Nimrod Pod. We…
You mentioned this uniparty establishment, and this is something that's really boiled up to the surface really since your primary.
The two-party system, it only works if you have free and fair primaries and a politically engaged electorate.
Based on your experience challenging an entrenched incumbent, do you think the two-party system can be reformed or does it need to be abandoned?
And here's the best part is that now that we've got this base that's moving, regardless of what happened to me, you know, in March, there's not much we can do about that.
And I believe that the reform is going to come because of the forcing function of, you know, the fact that They have the House.
But we can't get anything done, right? We're watching, like I said, Texas is an investment tool.
Large economy, one of the top 10, top 12 in the world, I believe in the top 8 to 10 economies if Texas was a nation.
So what I found, and these are just going to be facts that I know, I have the receipts on.
What I found is in the state of Texas and many other places that if you are not anointed, you're not going into office.
If you are not anointed, you're not going to get the seat that you're going after.
So those are the kind of things that we've got to get to, to include, like I said, those grassroots organizations.
You mentioned this uniparty establishment, and this is something that's really boiled up to the surface really since your primary.
The two-party system, it only works if you have free and fair primaries and a politically engaged electorate.
Based on your experience challenging an entrenched incumbent, do you think the two-party system can be reformed or does it need to be abandoned?
And here's the best part is that now that we've got this base that's moving, regardless of what happened to me, you know, in March, there's not much we can do about that.
And I believe that the reform is going to come because of the forcing function of, you know, the fact that They have the House.
But we can't get anything done, right? We're watching, like I said, Texas is an investment tool.
Large economy, one of the top 10, top 12 in the world, I believe in the top 8 to 10 economies if Texas was a nation.
So what I found, and these are just going to be facts that I know, I have the receipts on.
What I found is in the state of Texas and many other places that if you are not anointed, you're not going into office.
If you are not anointed, you're not going to get the seat that you're going after.
So those are the kind of things that we've got to get to, to include, like I said, those grassroots organizations.
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