Humanities Research with Professors as a High Schooler?
Let me suggest that you contact, first by email, some professors at the universities, both the local one and another where you will be co-located. Explain something about your interest, but also why you think you have enough background to make a relationship interesting to them.
A local professor might be more help and you might be able to work through a secondary school instructor to make the contact.
But, I think you will have a hard job to convince anyone without some support from somewhere. Interest isn't enough. If you are widely read in political theory it will help.
I worry, of course, that if you are merely driven by the current political situation and have &quot;opinions&quot; about it, then you won't be successful. So, examine your motivation. Political theory is about theory and only incidentally about &quot;politics&quot; as popularly understood.
Have you read Plato's Republic, for example? Anything by John Locke? If you have some of that background then you might have a chance of success.