Chuck Norris’ endorsement of Mike Huckabee all started with an email from an unlikely source: 19-year-old twins Brett and Alex Harris. “Before the Ames straw poll we sent out a couple hundred e-mails to friends and acquaintances across of the country,” Alex Harris said. ”One of them went to a friend, an author who just happened to be at Chuck Norris’ ranch.” Such emails are part of the duo’s work as co-founders of Huck’s Army, a 14,891-member grass-roots effort hoping to put Huckabee in the Oval Office.

Home-schooled south of Portland, Ore., the evangelical teens have been organizing online since 2005, when they launched Rebelution, a youth ministry that has spawned a series of conferences and a book due out in April. They define that project as “a teenage rebellion against the low expectations of an ungodly culture.” Now as Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, is forced to cut back on expenses, Brett and Alex Harris are calling on the volunteers of Huck’s Army to provide the campaign with support and infrastructure.

Whether their efforts will have the desired impact is yet to be seen, but you have to at least give them credit for their initiative. Not many young people their age would spearhead such a project. (It must run in their blood, as their older brother is Joshua Harris, who many of you will recognize as the author of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.”)